CVE-2009-4227

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-12-03
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
543905: CVE-2009-4227 CVE-2009-4228 Xfig, Transfig: Stack-based buffer overflow by loading malformed .FIG files

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-4227 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4227

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 transfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 transfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 xfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 transfig Will not fix

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