CVE-2009-4227

Exp

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.

Published: 2009-12-08 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-4227 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 15.00%, 95th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-4227

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
33388 exploit_db edb 2009-12-03 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4227

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-12 17.42% 15.00% -2.42%
2 2026-01-30 17.02% 17.42% +0.40%
3 2025-03-30 — 17.02% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4227

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4227

OS Trackers for CVE-2009-4227

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2009-4227 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xfig), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4227
gentoo normal CVE-2009-4227: 1 GLSA(s) (201412-14), 1 atom(s) (media-gfx/xfig); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2009-4227
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4227
ubuntu medium CVE-2009-4227 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xfig), 27 status rows across 27 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, dapper, disco, eoan, focal, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 22, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-4227

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2009-4227

  • Red Hat (2009-12-15T00:00:00)

    Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4227 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4227

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
xfig xfig <= 3.2.5b cpe:2.3:a:xfig:xfig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xfig xfig 3.2.5 cpe:2.3:a:xfig:xfig:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4227

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