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UBUNTU-CVE-2009-4227 (CVE-2009-4227)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2009-12-08 18:30 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:49 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_1_3_textobject function in f_readold.c in Xfig 3.2.5b and earlier, and in the read_textobject function in read1_3.c in fig2dev in Transfig 3.2.5a and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a malformed .fig file that uses the 1.3 file format. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-4227	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4227	REPORT

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CVE-2009-4227 (GCVE-0-2009-4227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-08 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/03/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37193	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108	vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/37571	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2009-12-03 00:00

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