CVE-2009-4880 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the strfmon implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.10.1 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a crafted format string as demonstrated by a crafted first argument to the money_format function in PHP a related issue to CVE-2008-1391.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/39900 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/67 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10600 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=199eb0de8d673fb23aa127721054b4f1803d61f3 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2058 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36443 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-944-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1246 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524671 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59242