Vulnerability in Xfig

CVE-2009-4228

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.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xfig — versions 3.2.4, 3.2.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References