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.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-376-1 mono security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1564-1 mono security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1998-1 New kdelibs packages fix arbitrary code execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-871-1 KDE vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-915-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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References
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http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/gdtoaimp.h cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0312.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37431 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37682 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37683 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38066 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38977 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39001 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/63 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/69 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/71 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/72 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/75 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/76 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/77 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/78 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/81 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022478 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gdtoa/misc.c cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/942/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507977/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507979/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508417/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508423/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35510 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3297 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3299 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0094 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516396 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516862 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0689 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6528 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9541 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0689 cve-icon
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.4232}

epss

{'score': 0.41051}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:40:05.365Z

Reserved: 2009-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0689

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-07-01T13:00:01.360

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-0689

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0689 - Bugzilla

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