| Name | CVE-2009-0689 |
| Description | Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, K-Meleon 1.5.3, SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1564-1, DLA-376-1, DSA-1931-1, DSA-1998-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 559265, 559266 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| mono (PTS) | bullseye | 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.3~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.3 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 6.12.0.199+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
| nspr (PTS) | bullseye | 2:4.29-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:4.35-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2:4.36-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kde4libs | source | (unstable) | 4:4.3.4-1 | medium | 559266 | |
| kdelibs | source | lenny | 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4 | DSA-1998-1 | ||
| kdelibs | source | (unstable) | 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3 | medium | 559265 | |
| mono | source | squeeze | 2.6.7-5.1+deb6u2 | DLA-376-1 | ||
| mono | source | jessie | 3.2.8+dfsg-10+deb8u1 | DLA-1564-1 | ||
| mono | source | (unstable) | 4.2.1.102+dfsg2-4 | |||
| nspr | source | etch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| nspr | source | lenny | 4.7.1-5 | DSA-1931-1 | ||
| nspr | source | (unstable) | 4.8-2 |
[etch] - nspr <end-of-life> (Mozilla packages from oldstable no longer covered by security support)
[lenny] - kde4libs <no-dsa> (Only uses by a few packages in Lenny, hardly any attack vector)
[wheezy] - mono <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/vulnerabilities/
https://gist.github.com/directhex/01e853567fd2cc74ed39