| Name | CVE-2009-0840 |
| Description | Heap-based buffer underflow in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a negative value in the Content-Length HTTP header. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1914-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 523027 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mapserver (PTS) | bullseye | 7.6.2-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 8.0.0-3 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 8.4.0-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
Initial fix was incomplete