CVE-2009-1284

N/A Unknown

Published: April 09, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/34445

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920