CVE-2009-1284

Published: Apr 9, 2009Modified: Apr 23, 2026

5.0

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

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 (1)

Products: Bibtex: Bibtex

Bibtex

1 product

Bibtex

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Bibtex Bibtex	Version 0.99

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (16)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/34445

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920