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CVE-2009-0323

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 62.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-01-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in W3C Amaya Web Browser 10.0 and 11.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long type parameter in an input tag, which is not properly handled by the EndOfXmlAttributeValue function; (2) an "HTML GI" in a start tag, which is not properly handled by the ProcessStartGI function; and unspecified vectors in (3) html2thot.c and (4) xml2thot.c, related to the msgBuffer variable. NOTE: these are different vectors than CVE-2008-6005.

Affected products

• W3 Amaya: through 11.0; 0.9, 0.95b, 1.0, 1.0a, 1.1, 1.1a (+64)

References

• http://www.coresecurity.com/content/amaya-buffer-overflows
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500492/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48325
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7902
• http://www.coresecurity.com/content/amaya-buffer-overflows
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500492/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48325
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7902

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