CVE-2009-1577
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 7.5%EU EUVD
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.
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
- 7.5% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1573)
- Published
- May 7, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1573 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
References
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19(Patch)
- http://cscope.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cscope/cscope/src/find.c?view=log#rev1.19
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/cscope/devel/cscope-15.5-putstring-overflow.patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35213
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/05/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666(Exploit, Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174(Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50366
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9837
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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