CVE-2009-2175 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the flattenIncrementally function in flatten.c in xcftools 1.0.4 as reachable from the (1) xcf2pnm and (2) xcf2png utilities allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image that causes a conversion to a location \above or to the left of the canvas.\ NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533361 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050526.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050542.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050562.html http://osvdb.org/55187 http://secunia.com/advisories/35397 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43883 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1638