CVE-2009-1291

critical

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in TIBCO SmartSockets before 6.8.2, SmartSockets Product Family (aka RTworks) before 4.0.5, and Enterprise Message Service (EMS) 4.0.0 through 5.1.1, as used in SmartSockets Server and RTworks Server (aka RTserver), SmartSockets client libraries and add-on products, RTworks libraries and components, EMS Server (aka tibemsd), SmartMQ, iProcess Engine, ActiveMatrix products, and CA Enterprise Communicator, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "inbound data," as demonstrated by requests to the UDP interface of the RTserver component, and data injection into the TCP stream to tibemsd.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50214

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1198

http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/smartsockets-sspfm-ems_advisory_20090428.jsp

http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/default.jsp

http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_smartsockets_tcm8-7560.txt

http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_rtworks_tcm8-7559.txt

http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_ems_tcm8-7558.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34754

http://www.harmonysecurity.com/blog/2009/04/tibco-smartsockets-stack-buffer.html

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022129

http://secunia.com/advisories/34911

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=785

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-04-30

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0643