CVE-2009-0148: Cscope

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Cscope before 15.7a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long strings in input such as (1) source-code tokens and (2) pathnames, related to integer overflows in some cases. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2004-2541.

Affected products

• Cscope Cscope: version 13.0 only; version 15.0bl2 only; version 15.1 only; version 15.3 only; version 15.4 only; version 15.5 only; …

Published 2009-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.