CVE-2009-3857 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-3857

Buffer overflow in Softonic International SciTE 1.72 allows user-assisted remote...

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in Softonic International SciTE 1.72 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Ruby (.rb) file containing a long string, which triggers the crash when a scroll bar is used.

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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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

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Vulnerable Versions:
1.72

Timeline

Official Publish: November 4th, 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.