Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-2905

Title: Fedorahosted Newt RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-2905.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Sep 29, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-2905: Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.

Impacted Vendors

fedorahosted 1

Reference Links

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37922 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38833 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8556 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9664 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37922 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38833 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/newt/newt_0.52.2-10+etch1.diff.gz http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067251 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1894 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36515 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-837-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8556 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9664 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1463.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-2905 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 29, 2009 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.