Vulnerability in FreeBSD
CVE-2008-1391
Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.188 (97.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.188 · newest: 0.188 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28479 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490158/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41504 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33179 (third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3770 (Exploit, third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html (vendor-advisory)
- cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c
- securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/53 (Exploit, third-party-advisory)