Stack consumption vulnerability in u_bound.c in Xfig 3.2.5b and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application c…

published 2009-12-08 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-4197

cvss: 4.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-4228 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 4.3

Transfig: Stack-based buffer overflow by loading malformed .FIG files

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 xfig, transfig Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xfig, transfig Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xfig, transfig, xfig-plain, xfig-common
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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Exploit prediction

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2009-4228
NVD CVE-2009-4228

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Summary