CVE-2010-1620

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the load_iface function in Tools/gdomap.c in gdomap in GNUstep Base before 1.20.0 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) file or (2) socket that provides configuration data with many entries, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Gnustep Base: through 1.19.3; 1.11.2, 1.12.0, 1.13.0, 1.14.0, 1.15.0, 1.15.1 (+7)

References

http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/gnustep-base-1.20.0.tar.gz
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127324274005709&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127325778527537&w=2
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29755
http://secunia.com/advisories/39746
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.bugs/12336
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/573108
http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/gnustep-base-1.20.0.tar.gz
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127324274005709&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127325778527537&w=2
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29755
http://secunia.com/advisories/39746

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