CVE-2009-0689
EPSS 41.8%kdelibs - arbitrary code execution
Published: 7/1/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (6)
- Debian/kdelibsfrom 0, < 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4
- Debian/monofrom 0, < 4.2.1.102+dfsg2-4
- Debian/monofrom 0, < 3.2.8+dfsg-10+deb8u1
- Debian/monofrom 0, < 2.6.7-5.1+deb6u2
- Debian/nsprfrom 0, < 4.8-2
- Debian/nsprfrom 0, < 4.7.1-5