CVE-2009-0689
Array 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...
- Published
- Jul 1, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Evidence observed
- May 26, 2009
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 98.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Array 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.
Sources
12- str2haxExploit
An implementation of CVE-2009-0689 for the Nintendo Wii.
Maksymilian Arciemowicz & sp3x · linux · Nov 19, 2009
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