CVE-2008-1391

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductFreebsd
PublishedMar 27, 2008
First seenMar 27, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freebsd freebsd6.0, 6.0_p5_release, 7.0, 7.0_beta4, 7.0_releng—
netbsd netbsd4.0—

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