CVE-2009-4880
MEDIUMEPSS 95th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39900
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/67
- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=199eb0de8d673fb23aa127721054b4f1803d61f3
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36443
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-944-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1246
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524671
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59242
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