CVE-2009-4228: Xfig

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Xfig Xfig: up to and including 3.2.5b; version 3.2.4 only; version 3.2.5 only

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