PT-2009-6390 · Xfig+1 · Xfig+1

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-12-08 · Updated 2011-01-20 · CVE-2009-4228

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xfig versions 3.2.5b and earlier

Description A stack consumption issue in u bound.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially crashing the application, by providing a long string in a malformed .fig file that uses the 1.3 file format. This issue may be related to the readfp fig function in f read.c.

Recommendations For Xfig versions 3.2.5b and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4228

Affected Products

Debian

Xfig

References · 11

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4228 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-4228 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4228 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4228 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4228 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xfig · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.debian.org/src:xfig · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905 · Note