CVE-2009-0689

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0689
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-07-01 13:00:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionArray index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, K-Meleon 1.5.3, SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 release_p2 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 release_p3 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 release_p4 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 release_p5 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 6.4 stable All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.2 pre-release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 7.2 stable All All
Application K-meleon Project K-meleon 1.5.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.5 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.8 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 5.0 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 4.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
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Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:013 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Camino 1.6.10 Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
MacOS X 10.5/10.6 libc/strtod(3) buffer overflow ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (lib) Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Sunbird 0.9 Array Overrun (code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Opera Floating Point Number Processing Memory Corruption - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:018 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
MFSA 2009-59: Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Mozilla Thunderbird Floating Point Parsing Memory Corruption - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Apple Mac OS X "strtod()" Floating Point Parsing Memory Corruption - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1564-1] mono security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
Support | Red Hat af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
516862 – Array indexing error in js/src/dtoa.c's Balloc() leads to floating point memory vulnerability (SA36711) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Flock 2.5.2 Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Advisory: Heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion - Opera Knowledge Base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.opera.com
Multiple BSD printf(1) and multiple dtoa/*printf(3) vulnerabilities ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - libc gdtoa Array Overrun May Let Remote or Local Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Patch
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
K-Meleon 1.5.3 Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
About the security content of iOS 4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1 Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com Vendor Advisory
USN-915-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1 iOS 4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Opera 10.01 Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
CVS log for src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openbsd.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
About the security content of Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:330 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Sunbird Floating Point Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Multiple BSD Distributions 'gdtoa/misc.c' Memory Corruption Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
Multiple Vendors libc/gdtoa printf(3) Array Overrun ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Exploit
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:294 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SeaMonkey 1.1.8 Remote Array Overrun (Arbitrary code execution) ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVS log for src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvsweb.netbsd.org Patch
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
516396 – (CVE-2009-0689) Array indexing error in NSPR's Balloc() leads to floating point memory vulnerability (SA36711) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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