CVE-2009-1962: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xfig, possibly 3.2.5, allows local users to read and write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) xfig-eps[PID], (2) xfig-pic[PID].pix, (3) xfig-pic[PID].err, (4) xfig-pcx[PID].pix, (5) xfig-xfigrc[PID], (6) xfig[PID], (7) xfig-print[PID], (8) xfig-export[PID].err, (9) xfig-batch[PID], (10) xfig-exp[PID], or (11) xfig-spell.[PID] temporary files, where [PID] is a process ID.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Xfig Xfig: version 3.2.5 only

Published 2009-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.