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CVE-2009-4228 (GCVE-0-2009-4228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-08 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
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Summary
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.
Severity
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CWE
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Date Public
2009-12-04 00:00
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