CVE-2009-1284
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.014 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.4%
Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.
Affected configurations
References
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920
secunia.com/advisories/34445
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html
Related
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.014 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.4%