CVE-2008-1391

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 19%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMar 27

1st PoCMar 27

exploitation probability

19%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/31550

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References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29574 http://secunia.com/advisories/33179 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41504 https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479