Vulnerability CVE-2009-1577
Published: 2009-05-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Cscope -> Cscope 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666
http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50366
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/05/1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/35213
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9837
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch
http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19
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