CVE-2009-0148

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Cscope before 15.7a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long strings in input such as (1) source-code tokens and (2) pathnames, related to integer overflows in some cases. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2004-2541.

Affected products

Cscope: 13.0, 15.0bl2, 15.1, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5 (+2)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34978
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
http://secunia.com/advisories/35213
http://secunia.com/advisories/35214
http://secunia.com/advisories/35462
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=947983
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E1LsGx3-00015K-TN%40ddv4jf1.ch3.sourceforge.com&forum_name=cscope-cvs
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=4664&release_id=679527
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1806

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