CVE-2009-0840

N/A Unknown

Published: March 31, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2009-March/060600.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/34520

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/34603

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1914

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.positronsecurity.com/advisories/2009-000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502271/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34306

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021952

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49545

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00147.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00170.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2009-March/060600.html