CVE-2009-2286: James Ashton Compface

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in compface 1.5.2 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long declaration in a .xbm file. NOTE: this issue only affects compface on distributions that used a certain patch.

Affected products

• James Ashton Compface: up to and including 1.5.2; version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only

Published 2009-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.