CVE-2009-1577 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-1577

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

cscope
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 13.0, 15.0bl2, 15.1, 15.3, 15.4

Timeline

Official Publish: May 7th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.