CVE-2009-2281

Published: 23 October 2009

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x through 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Content-Length HTTP header or (2) a large HTTP request, related to an integer overflow that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0840.

Notes

for Intrepid and later, this should be mitigated by _FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Status

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2281
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian