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DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0689

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0689 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14nspr0, 0, 0
Debian:11nspr0, 0, 0
Debian:12mono0, 0, 0
Debian:13mono0, 0, 0
Debian:14mono0, 0, 0
Debian:12nspr0, 0, 0
Debian:13nspr0, 0, 0
Debian:11mono0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jul 1, 2009 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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