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CVE-2009-2175

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the flattenIncrementally function in flatten.c in xcftools 1.0.4, as reachable from the (1) xcf2pnm and (2) xcf2png utilities, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image that causes a conversion to a location "above or to the left of the canvas." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Henning Makholm Xcftools: 1.0.4

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533361
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050526.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050542.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050562.html
• http://osvdb.org/55187
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35397
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43883
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1638
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533361
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050526.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050542.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050562.html

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