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CVE-2008-1391

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-03-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.0, 6.0-release, 6.0-stable, 6.0_p5_release, 7.0, 7.0-pre-release (+2)
• Netbsd: 4.0

References

• http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29574
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33179
• http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3770
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019722
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html

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