CVE-2009-0840 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer underflow in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a negative value in the Content-Length HTTP header.

Reference

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2009-March/060600.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34520 http://secunia.com/advisories/34603 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1914 http://www.positronsecurity.com/advisories/2009-000.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502271/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34306 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021952 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49545 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00147.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00170.html