National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4880

Overview

Multiple integer overflows in the strfmon implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.10.1 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a crafted format string, as demonstrated by a crafted first argument to the money_format function in PHP, a related issue to CVE-2008-1391.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 36443

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36443

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524671

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524671

External Source: XF

Name: gnuclibrary-strfmon-overflow(59242)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/59242

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-1246

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1246

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-944-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-944-1

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:112

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:111

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2058

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=199eb0de8d673fb23aa127721054b4f1803d61f3

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=199eb0de8d673fb23aa127721054b4f1803d61f3

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600

Hyperlink:http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600

External Source: SREASONRES

Name: 20090917 glibc x<=2.10.1 stdio/strfmon.c Multiple Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/67

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201011-01

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 39900

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/39900