CVE-2009-1284

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-1284
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-04-09 16:27:57 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bibtex Bibtex 0.99 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
TeX Live bibtex Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: texlive-2007-46.fc11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
USN-937-1: TeX Live vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: texlive-2007-46.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Bug 492136 – CVE-2009-1284 tetex, texlive: bibtex's invalid reads/writes when parsing big *.bib file af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE request -- bibtex, pam_ssh af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
#520920 - texlive-base-bin: bibtex crashes with large bib file - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-08-31Tomas HogerRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1284 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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