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CVE-2008-1391

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-03-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd FreebsdNetbsd Netbsd

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References