CVE-2009-2850 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-2850

Multiple buffer overflows in NASA Common Data Format (CDF) allow...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple buffer overflows in NASA Common Data Format (CDF) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using (1) an array index error in the ReadAEDRList64 function, and other errors in the (2) SearchForRecord_r_64, (3) LastRecord64, (4) CDFsel64, and other unspecified functions.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

nasa goddard space flight center

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Affected Software

common data format
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: August 18th, 2009
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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