CVE-2009-1284 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920 http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html