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CVE-2009-0537

N/A

Published: March 9, 2009 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsOpenBSDInterix

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 4%

Description

Integer overflow in the fts_build function in fts.c in libc in (1) OpenBSD 4.4 and earlier and (2) Microsoft Interix 6.0 build 10.0.6030.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a deep directory tree, related to the fts_level structure member, as demonstrated by (a) du, (b) rm, (c) chmod, and (d) chgrp on OpenBSD; and (e) SearchIndexer.exe on Vista Enterprise.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Interix · Microsoft

95%

OpenBSD · Openbsd

95%

v ≤ 4.42.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c

References (7)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRES

Source: [email protected]

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818

Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Source: [email protected]

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163

CVSS

4.9MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-189

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