CVE-2009-2905
Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to
02 Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to
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
- 0.49% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 42.3% 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
- Moderate. 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
- 2009-09-29 19:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 06:07Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-08-20
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- 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
- 7440f58bacbfda6dd8b0c90ea13d1bc9cb25d2c0e7b145f3493d7a6d29789390
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com38794http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
- lists.vmware.com[security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updateshttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1894http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2009:1463https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251
- www.securityfocus.com36515http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515
- security.debian.orghttp://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:8556https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8556
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9664https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9664
- secunia.com37922http://secunia.com/advisories/37922
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-837-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1
- secunia.com38833http://secunia.com/advisories/38833
- kb.juniper.nethttp://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:017http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-0528http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- newt Fixed in 0.52.10-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- newt Fixed in 0.52.10-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- newt Fixed in 0.52.10-4.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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