cve/2009/CVE-2009-4227.md

CVE-2009-4227

Description

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.

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.