CVE-2009-0148

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2009-0148 · Published 05/05/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-0148 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting cscope (cscope).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.8%, higher than 94.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cscope cscope	`= 13.0= 15.0bl2= 15.1= 15.3= 15.4= 15.5= 15.6= 15.7`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Cscope before 15.7a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long strings in input such as (1) source-code tokens and (2) pathnames, related to integer overflows in some cases. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2004-2541.

References

lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
secunia.com/advisories/34978 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35074 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35213 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35214 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35462 · Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-02.xml
sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php · Patch
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch
support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1806
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/06/9

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cscope

= 13.0= 15.0bl2= 15.1= 15.3= 15.4= 15.5= 15.6= 15.7

No fix yet

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