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CVE-2009-0840

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2009-03-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer underflow in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x before 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.2.2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a negative value in the Content-Length HTTP header.

Affected Platforms

Osgeo MapserverUmn Mapserver

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References