CVE-2009-1577: Cscope

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cscope Cscope: up to and including 15.5; version 13.0 only; version 15.0bl2 only; version 15.1 only; version 15.3 only; version 15.4 only

Published 2009-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.