CVE-2008-1391

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-31550 dos bsd verified

Maksymilian Arciemowicz · 2008-03-27

BSD (Multiple Distributions) - 'strfmon()' Integer Overflow

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.11-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.11-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.11-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.11-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.11-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1391

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.