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mapserver: incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2009-0840

Published Oct 23, 2009

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x through 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Content-Length HTTP header or (2) a large HTTP request, related to an integer overflow that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0840.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 23, 2009
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Jul 1, 2009
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a