CVE-2009-0689

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    CVE-2009-0689

    Published: 1 Jul 2009Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0312.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/37431, http://secunia.com/advisories/37682, http://secunia.com/advisories/37683, http://secunia.com/advisories/38066, http://secunia.com/advisories/38977, http://secunia.com/advisories/39001, http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html, http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3297, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3299, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0094, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/63, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510, http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h, http://securitytracker.com/id?1022478, http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516396, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516862, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/69, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/71, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/72, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/75, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/76, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/77, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/78, http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/81, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225, http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/942/, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507977/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507979/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508417/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508423/100/0/threaded, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00001.html, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6528, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9541

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High