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CVE-2009-1577

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2009-06-16	cscope -- buffer overflow

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CVE-2009-1577 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2009-1577
Phase	Assigned(20090506)

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20090505 Old cscope buffer overflow
MLIST	[oss-security] 20090506 Re: Old cscope buffer overflow
MLIST	[oss-security] 20090506 Re: Old cscope buffer overflow
CONFIRM	http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
CONFIRM	http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19
CONFIRM	http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174
GENTOO	GLSA-200905-02
REDHAT	RHSA-2009:1101
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9837
SECUNIA	35213
XF	cscope-findc-bo(50366)