mapserver: multiple security fixes in 5.2.2 and 4.10.4 (CVE-2009-0839, CVE-2009-0840, CVE-2009-0841, CVE-2009-0842, CVE-2009-0843, CVE-2009-1176, CVE-2009-1177)
Published Mar 31, 2009
10.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 5.28%
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.
Affected products
No data.
- 4.2.0
- 4.4.0
- 4.4.0
- 4.4.0
- 4.4.0
- 4.6.0
- 4.6.0
- 4.6.0
- 4.6.0
- 4.6.0
- 4.8.0
- 4.8.0
- 4.8.0
- 4.8.0
- 4.8.0
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.0
- 4.10.1
- 4.10.2
- 4.10.3
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.1
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (12 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 5.28% (0.05283) | 92.33th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 5.28% (0.05283) | 91.49th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 2, 2025 | 2.70% (0.02704) | 85.22th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 28, 2025 | 4.37% (0.04365) | 88.36th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.56% (0.02558) | 84.16th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 4.14% (0.04137) | 80.75th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.63% (0.02626) | 84.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 2.97% (0.02968) | 91.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.97% (0.02968) | 89.31th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.73th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (16)
- http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2009-March/060600.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34520 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34603 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1914 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.positronsecurity.com/advisories/2009-000.html x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502271/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34306 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021952 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0840 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493364 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49545 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0840
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0840
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00147.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00170.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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