CVE-2009-1284

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 12%

from disclosure to weapon218 days

Published on NVDApr 9

1st PoC+218d

exploitation probability

12%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Buffer 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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/10203

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References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1