Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2009-0537 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60	CVE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163	CVE
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008	CVE	Exploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818	CVE
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/60	[email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8163	[email protected]
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c.diff?r1=1.41%3Br2=1.42%3Bf=h	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501505/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34008	[email protected]	Exploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021818	[email protected]

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-189	Numeric Errors	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
microsoft interix	6.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:interix:6.0::10.0.6030.0::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
openbsd openbsd	<= 4.4 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
CPE cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:::::::: cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.3:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 11, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 29, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 10, 2009	Initial Analysis	[email protected]