cve/2009/CVE-2009-4228.md

### [CVE-2009-4228](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4228)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.