CVE-2009-5029

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.

Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-05-02 14:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-05-03 12:39:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.0

2.0

GNU glibc 2.0.1

2.0.1

GNU glibc 2.0.2

2.0.2

GNU glibc 2.0.3

2.0.3

GNU glibc 2.0.4

2.0.4

GNU glibc 2.0.5

2.0.5

GNU glibc 2.0.6

2.0.6

GNU glibc 2.1

2.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1

2.1.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1.6

2.1.1.6

GNU glibc 2.1.2

2.1.2

GNU glibc 2.1.3

2.1.3

GNU glibc 2.1.9

2.1.9

GNU glibc 2.13

2.13

GNU glibc

References

http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/

Exploit

20111203 VSFTPD Remote Heap Overrun (low severity)

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2

[libc-alpha] 20111215 integer overflow to heap overrun exploit in glibc

Exploit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245

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