CVE-2009-2281 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-2281

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x through 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Content-Length HTTP header or (2) a large HTTP request, related to an integer overflow that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0840.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mapserver
Vulnerable Versions:
4.2.0, 4.4.0, 4.6.0, 4.8.0, 4.10.0, 4.10.1, 4.10.2, 4.10.3, 4.10.4, 5.0.0, 5.2.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 23rd, 2009
Last Modified: September 16th, 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.