Buffer overflow in Cscope

CVE-2009-0148

Multiple buffer overflows in Cscope before 15.7a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long strings in input such as (1) source-code tokens and (2) pathnames, related to integer overflows in some cases. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2004-2541.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.068 (93.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2009-0148: held from 0.068 to 0.068.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.068 · newest: 0.068 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Cscope — versions 13.0, 15.0bl2, 15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References