Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0689

RCE

Title: Mozilla Seamonkey RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-0689

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jul 01, 2009
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Available
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
41.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0689: Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, K-Meleon 1.5.3, SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number.

Impacted Vendors

M
mozilla 2
K
k-meleon_project 1
C
christophe_thibault 1

Reference Links

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0312.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37431 http://secunia.com/advisories/37682 http://secunia.com/advisories/37683 http://secunia.com/advisories/38066 http://secunia.com/advisories/38977 http://secunia.com/advisories/39001 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/ http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/63 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/69 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/71 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/72 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/75 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/76 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/77 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/78 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/81 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022478 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/942/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507977/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507979/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508417/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508423/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3299 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0094 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516396 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516862 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00001.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6528 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9541 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0312.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37431 http://secunia.com/advisories/37682 http://secunia.com/advisories/37683 http://secunia.com/advisories/38066 http://secunia.com/advisories/38977 http://secunia.com/advisories/39001 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/ http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/63 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/69 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/71 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/72 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/75 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/76 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/77 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/78 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/81 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022478 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/942/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507977/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507979/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508417/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508423/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3299 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0094 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516396 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516862 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00001.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6528 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9541
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0689 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10186
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10187
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10185
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10184
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33480
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33312
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33364
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33058
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33363
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33479
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10380
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.