CVE-2009-4228

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Xfig: through 3.2.5b; 3.2.4, 3.2.5

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905

Get alerted when CVE-2009-4228 or the next vulnerability affects your stack