FKIE_CVE-2009-1577
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-05-07 17:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:07
Severity
Summary
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the putstring function in find.c in Cscope before 15.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) function name or (2) symbol in a source-code file.
References
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