CVE-2010-0411

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in the (1) __get_argv and (2) __get_compat_argv functions in tapset/aux_syscalls.stp in SystemTap 1.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (script crash, or system crash or hang) via a process with a large number of arguments, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Systemtap: 1.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035201.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035261.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126530657715364&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/38426
http://secunia.com/advisories/38680
http://secunia.com/advisories/38765
http://secunia.com/advisories/38817
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023664
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11234
http://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2d399c87a642190f08ede63dc6fc434a5a8363a

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