CVE-2009-1284: Bibtex

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Bibtex Bibtex: version 0.99 only

Published 2009-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.