Executive Summary



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Informations
Name CVE-2009-5029 First vendor Publication 2013-05-02
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5029

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20487
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20487
Title: VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries
Description: Integer overflow in the __tzfile_read function in glibc before 2.15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted timezone (TZ) file, as demonstrated using vsftpd.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-5029
 Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25222
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25222
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1287-1 -- Security update for glibc
Description: This collective update for the GNU C library (glibc) provides the following fixes and enhancements: Security issues fixed: - Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#813121, CVE-2013-1914) - Fixed another stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results (bnc#828637) - Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365) (CVE-2010-4756) - Fix array overflow in floating point parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Make addmntent return errors also for cached streams. [bnc #676178, CVE-2011-1089] - Fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc #770891, CVE 2012-3406] - Add vfprintf-nargs.diff for possible format string overflow. [bnc #747768, CVE-2012-0864] - Check values from file header in __tzfile_read. [bnc #735850, CVE-2009-5029] Also several bugs were fixed: - Fix locking in _IO_cleanup. (bnc#796982) - Fix memory leak in execve. (bnc#805899) - Fix nscd timestamps in logging (bnc#783196) - Fix perl script error message (bnc#774467) - Fall back to localhost if no nameserver defined (bnc#818630) - Fix incomplete results from nscd. [bnc #753756] - Fix a deadlock in dlsym in case the symbol isn't found, for multithreaded programs. [bnc #760216] - Fix problem with TLS and dlopen. [#732110] - Backported regex fix for skipping of valid EUC-JP matches [bnc#743689] - Fixed false regex match on incomplete chars in EUC-JP [bnc#743689] - Add glibc-pmap-timeout.diff in order to fix useless connection attempts to NFS servers. [bnc #661460]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1287-1
CVE-2013-1914
CVE-2010-4756
CVE-2012-3480
CVE-2011-1089
CVE-2012-0864
CVE-2009-5029
 Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
 Product(s): glibc
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 106

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-27 Name : VMSA-2012-0018: VMware security updates for vCSA and ESXi
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0018.nasl
2012-09-10 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2012-041-03 glibc
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2012_041_03.nasl
2012-08-31 Name : VMSA-2012-0013 VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries.
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2012-0013.nasl
2012-08-02 Name : SuSE Update for glibc openSUSE-SU-2012:0064-1 (glibc)
File : nvt/gb_suse_2012_0064_1.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0058 centos6
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0058_glibc_centos6.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0125 centos4
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0125_glibc_centos4.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0126 centos5
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0126_glibc_centos5.nasl
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0393 centos6
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0393_glibc_centos6.nasl
2012-07-09 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0058-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0058-01_glibc.nasl
2012-07-09 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0393-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0393-01_glibc.nasl
2012-03-12 Name : Ubuntu Update for eglibc USN-1396-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1396_1.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0125-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0125-01_glibc.nasl
2012-02-21 Name : RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0126-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0126-01_glibc.nasl
2012-01-20 Name : Fedora Update for glibc FEDORA-2012-0018
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_0018_glibc_fc15.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
77508 GNU C Library time/tzfile.c __tzfile_read() Function Timezone File Handling R...

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2013-02-28 IAVM : 2013-B-0018 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server 5.0
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0037063
2012-09-27 IAVM : 2012-A-0153 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033884
2012-09-13 IAVM : 2012-B-0086 - VMware vCenter Operations Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033791
2012-09-13 IAVM : 2012-A-0146 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.1
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033792
2012-09-13 IAVM : 2012-A-0147 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server 4.1
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033793
2012-09-13 IAVM : 2012-A-0148 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033794

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-02-29 Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0013_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2013-1287-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0168.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0109.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_glibc-111219.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_glibc-111219.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-32.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201312-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-13 Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is affected by multiple security vulnerabilit...
File : vmware_esxi_5_1_build_1063671_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-13 Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : vmware_esxi_5_0_build_912577_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2012-39.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-29 Name : The remote host has a virtualization appliance installed that is affected by ...
File : vcenter_operations_manager_vmsa_2012-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0125.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-17 Name : The remote host has an update manager installed that is affected by multiple ...
File : vmware_vcenter_update_mgr_vmsa-2012-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-05 Name : The remote host has a virtualization management application installed that is...
File : vmware_vcenter_vmsa-2012-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-03-12 Name : The remote host has a virtualization management application installed that is...
File : vmware_vcenter_vmsa-2012-0018.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-24 Name : The remote VMware ESXi host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0018.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-31 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2012-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20120124_glibc_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20120213_glibc_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20120213_glibc_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-03-20 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-03-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-03-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1396-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0125.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0125.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-02-13 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2012-041-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-31 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2012-0058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-25 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-0018.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-01-05 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_glibc-111219.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761245
FULLDISC http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-December/084452.html
MISC http://dividead.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/glibc-timezone-integer-overflow/
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97ac2654b2d831acaa18a2b...
MLIST http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00037.html

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