CVE-2009-0689

Summary

CVECVE-2009-0689
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-07-01 13:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-11-02 10:29:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-119

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
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 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 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
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.8 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 5.0 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 5.0 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 4.5 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 4.5 All All All

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