CVE-2009-1284

Exp

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.

Published: 2009-04-09 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-1284 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 16.19%, 95th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-1284

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
10203 exploit_db edb 2009-11-13 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-1284

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-30 15.98% 16.19% +0.21%
2 2025-03-30 13.35% 15.98% +2.62%
3 2025-03-29 — 13.35% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-1284

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-1284

OS Trackers for CVE-2009-1284

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2009-1284 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (texlive-bin), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1284
gentoo normal CVE-2009-1284: 1 GLSA(s) (201206-28), 1 atom(s) (app-text/texlive-core); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2009-1284
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1284
ubuntu low CVE-2009-1284 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (texlive-bin), 8 status rows across 8 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, upstream): released 4, ignored 2, DNE 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-1284

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2009-1284

  • Red Hat (2009-08-31T00:00:00)

    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. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-1284

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bibtex bibtex 0.99 cpe:2.3:a:bibtex:bibtex:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-1284

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