CVE-2008-1391 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1391
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41504 ST 1019722 SREASONRES http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29574 Secunia Advisory: SA33179 CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded BID 28479 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html

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