CVE-2009-2905: Fedorahosted Newt

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request to display a crafted text dialog box.

Affected products

• Fedorahosted Newt: version 0.51.5 only; version 0.51.6 only; version 0.52.2 only

Published 2009-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.