CVE - CVE-2008-1391

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-1391	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2008-12-15 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html BID:28479 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479 BUGTRAQ:20080327 [securityreason] BSD libc (strfmon) Multiple vulnerabilities URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded CERT:TA08-350A URL:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html CONFIRM:http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c CONFIRM:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 DEBIAN:DSA-2058 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 SECTRACK:1019722 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019722 SECUNIA:29574 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/29574 SECUNIA:33179 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 SREASON:3770 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 SREASONRES:20080325 BSD libc (strfmon) Multiple vulnerabilities URL:http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 SUSE:SUSE-SA:2010:052 URL:https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html VUPEN:ADV-2008-3444 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444~~ (Obsolete source) XF:bsd-strfmon-overflow(41504) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41504
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20080318	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20080318)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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