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CVE-2009-4881 (GCVE-0-2009-4881)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-06-01 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:17
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Summary
Integer overflow in the __vstrfmon_l function in stdlib/strfmon_l.c in the strfmon implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted format string, as demonstrated by the %99999999999999999999n string, a related issue to CVE-2008-1391.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2009-04-18 00:00
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:05:51+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2009-4881",
      "id": "CVE-2009-4881",
      "initial_release_date": "2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "(32-bit): Integer overflow in the __vstrfmon_l function",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2009/cve-2009-4881.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2025-07-03T00:31:30Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2009-4881",
      "id": "CVE-2009-4881",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:01:18Z",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2009-4881",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2009-4881.json",
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  }
}



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