THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-1391
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-1391

Freebsd vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
18.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.
Affected vendor
Freebsd
Affected product
Freebsd
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-03-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 18.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-1391.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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