Vulnerability · Published Jul 9, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-72089fans plan9port x509.c edump heap-based overflow
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity heap buffer overflow in plan9port from 9fans. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability was found in 9fans plan9port up to 9da5b44. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function edump in the library /src/plan9port/src/libsec/port/x509.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The identifier of the patch is b3e06559475b0130a7a2fb56ac4d131d13d2012f. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-122, CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
References
- VDB-259053 | 9fans plan9port x509.c edump heap-based overflow vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-259053 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #304567 | plan9port plan9port commit be7c68f6954f7dcaa53403e0f600716f65a13d32 heap-buffer-overflow third-party-advisory
- Submit #607684 | 9fans plan9port plan9port-20250329 (commit 9da5b44) Heap-based Buffer Overflow (Duplicate) third-party-advisory
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kedwNLNDiFQB2OAp7S-ZKYoF7nxfIZGO?usp=sharing related
- https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/issues/710#issuecomment-2819906648 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/user-attachments/files/19698345/plan9port_crash_1.txt exploit
- https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/b3e06559475b0130a7a2fb56ac4d131d13d2012f/commit.html patch