CVE-2009-5029

N/A

Description

Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/2/2013

Last Modified4/29/2026

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Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:glibc

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-189

References

http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2(secalert@redhat.com)

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245(secalert@redhat.com)

http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b018b0736245903fd2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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