CVE-2009-0148
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.8% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0157)
- Published
- May 5, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0157 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
- cscope / cscope
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34978(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35213(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35214(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35462(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=947983(Patch)
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E1LsGx3-00015K-TN%40ddv4jf1.ch3.sourceforge.com&forum_name=cscope-cvs
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=4664&release_id=679527(Patch)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1806
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1102.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34805
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022218
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1238(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490667
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9633
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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