CVE-2009-4228 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:010 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905