CVE-2009-2688

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in glyphs-eimage.c in XEmacs 21.4.22, when running on Windows, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the tiff_instantiate function processing a crafted TIFF file, (2) the png_instantiate function processing a crafted PNG file, and (3) the jpeg_instantiate function processing a crafted JPEG file, all which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

Xemacs: 21.4.22

References

http://osvdb.org/55298
http://secunia.com/advisories/35348
http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue534
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35473
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1666
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275397
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511994
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51332
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51333
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51334
http://osvdb.org/55298
http://secunia.com/advisories/35348

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