CVE-2009-1284

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-03-23
Bugzilla:
492136: CVE-2009-1284 tetex, texlive: bibtex's invalid reads/writes when parsing big *.bib file

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1284 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1284

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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