DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4228

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4228

    Published: 8 Dec 2009Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-4228

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4228

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xfig

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/xfig?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:3.2.8b-2
    1:3.2.9-1
    1:3.2.9-2
    1:3.2.9-3
    1:3.2.9-4
    1:3.2.9a-1
    1:3.2.9a-2
    1:3.2.9a-3
    1:3.2.9a-4
    1:3.2.9a-5

    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