CVE-2008-1391 - Multiple BSD Platforms "strfmon()" Function Integer Overflow

Adrian Portelli adrianp at stindustries.net
Sun Apr 6 22:18:45 UTC 2008


Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2008.04.06 12:47:11 -0700, stheg olloydson wrote:
> 
>> According to the information at mitre.org, both 6.x and 7.0 are
>> vulnerable. I see in NetBSD's CVS log for
>> src/lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, they have patched this on March
>> 27.
> 
> Note that the change in NetBSD is possibly incomplete to fix the
> issue.  I'm not sure what the final conclusion was on that.
> 

The final conclusion was a subsequent commit on the 27th:

http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=netbsd-source-changes&a=2008-03&m=6750722
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=netbsd-source-changes&a=2008-03&m=6846592

We're still in the process of getting the changes pulled up.

adrian.


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