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CVE-2018-16140

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A buffer underwrite vulnerability in get_line() (read.c) in fig2dev 3.2.7a allows an attacker to write prior to the beginning of the buffer via a crafted .fig file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• xfig fig2dev: 3.2.7a

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00018.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/28/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3760-1/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00018.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/28/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3760-1/

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