Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0537 - Numeric Errors vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
description | Multiple Vendors libc:fts_*() Local Denial of Service Exploit. CVE-2009-0537. Dos exploit for bsd platform |
file | exploits/bsd/dos/8163.txt |
id | EDB-ID:8163 |
last seen | 2016-02-01 |
modified | 2009-03-05 |
platform | bsd |
port | |
published | 2009-03-05 |
reporter | SecurityReason |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/8163/ |
title | Multiple Vendors libc:fts_* - Local Denial of Service Exploit |
type | dos |
Seebug
bulletinFamily exploit description No description provided by source. id SSV:66339 last seen 2017-11-19 modified 2014-07-01 published 2014-07-01 reporter Root source https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-66339 title Multiple Vendors libc:fts_*() - Local Denial of Service Exploit bulletinFamily exploit description No description provided by source. id SSV:10777 last seen 2017-11-19 modified 2009-03-06 published 2009-03-06 reporter Root source https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-10777 title Multiple Vendors libc:fts_*() Local Denial of Service Exploit
References
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h