{
    "id": "CVE-2009-1284",
    "published": "2009-04-09 16:27:57",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:06:56",
    "cvss_score": "5.0",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "cwe": "CWE-119",
    "description": "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.11920",
    "epss_percentile": "0.95977",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-28 18:17:08",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "bibtex",
            "product": "bibtex"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "10203",
            "title": "BibTeX - '.bib' File Handling Memory Corruption",
            "date": "2009-11-13",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10203"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34445",
        "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html",
        "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/34445",
        "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html"
    ]
}