CVE-2009-0537

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Score
7.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
C
Published: March 9, 2009 (6275 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Integer overflow in the fts_build function in fts.c in libc in (1) OpenBSD 4.4 and earlier and (2) Microsoft Interix 6.0 build 10.0.6030.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a deep directory tree, related to the fts_level structure member, as demonstrated by (a) du, (b) rm, (c) chmod, and (d) chgrp on OpenBSD; and (e) SearchIndexer.exe on Vista Enterprise.

CWE

CWE-189

Affected Products

microsoft interixopenbsd openbsd

References

🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.openbsd.org 🔗 www.openbsd.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com