CVE-2009-4227: Xfig

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 10.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_1_3_textobject function in f_readold.c in Xfig 3.2.5b and earlier, and in the read_textobject function in read1_3.c in fig2dev in Transfig 3.2.5a and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a malformed .fig file that uses the 1.3 file format. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Xfig Xfig: up to and including 3.2.5b; version 3.2.5 only

Published 2009-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.