CVE-2009-1284
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 11.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-04-09 16:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 05:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-04-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7fa3e382dddd3d8ca6167f0a95c1685af298a1eec678212ab39b21550315d10d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20090401 CVE request -- bibtex, pam_sshhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201206-28http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-10730https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html
- secunia.com34445http://secunia.com/advisories/34445
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-10857https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-937-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- texlive-bin Fixed in 2009-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- texlive-bin Fixed in 2009-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- texlive-bin Fixed in 2009-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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