CVE-2009-5029 (GCVE-0-2009-5029)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-05-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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| http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-ti… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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