CVE-2009-4227

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 11%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 8

1st PoCDec 3

exploitation probability

11%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33388

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References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905 http://secunia.com/advisories/37571 http://secunia.com/advisories/37577 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54525 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/03/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37193 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108