PT-2009-3818 · Bibtex · Bibtex

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-04-09 · Updated 2013-04-19 · CVE-2009-1284

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BibTeX version 0.99

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and crash, by utilizing a long .bib bibliography file.

Recommendations For BibTeX version 0.99, consider avoiding the use of long .bib bibliography files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the size of .bib files to prevent potential memory corruption and crashes.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1284

Affected Products

Bibtex

References · 13

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/10203 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1284 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1284 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-1284 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1284 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 · Note