CVE-2009-5029

23Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 8.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMay 2

1st PoCJun 1

exploitation probability

8.1%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36404

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References

http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2 http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html