CVE-2009-4228

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    CVE-2009-4228

    Published: 8 Dec 2009Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Stack consumption vulnerability in u_bound.c in Xfig 3.2.5b and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in a malformed .fig file that uses the 1.3 file format, possibly related to the readfp_fig function in f_read.c.

    References: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High