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CVE-2009-1577

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Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9837

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50366

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/10

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/05/1

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/35213

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch

http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19

http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-05-07

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

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

Severity: High

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: 0.11957

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