CVE-2009-4880

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the strfmon implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.10.1 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a crafted format string, as demonstrated by a crafted first argument to the money_format function in PHP, a related issue to CVE-2008-1391.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.10.1; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+30)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/39900
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/67
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=199eb0de8d673fb23aa127721054b4f1803d61f3
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36443
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-944-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1246
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524671

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