Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1436

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-04-27 17:43:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:13:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The db interface in libc in FreeBSD 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2-PRERELEASE does not properly initialize memory for Berkeley DB 1.85 database structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a database file.