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FKIE_CVE-2009-4228

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-12-08 18:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:13
Severity
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xfig xfig *
xfig xfig 3.2.4
xfig xfig 3.2.5
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