CVE-2009-4228

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.

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-2009-4228 is rated Moderate Risk (44.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.69%). EPSS rose +1.03% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4228

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 2026-06-15 0.66% 1.69% +1.03%
2 2025-07-20 0.48% 0.66% +0.18%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.48% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4228

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4228

OS Trackers for CVE-2009-4228

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2009-4228 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xfig), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4228
gentoo normal CVE-2009-4228: 1 GLSA(s) (201412-14), 1 atom(s) (media-gfx/xfig); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2009-4228
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4228
ubuntu low CVE-2009-4228 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xfig), 31 status rows across 31 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, dapper, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hardy, hirsute, impish, intrepid, jammy, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 23, not-affected 6, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-4228

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2009-4228

  • 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-2009-4228 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low 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-2009-4228

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
xfig xfig <= 3.2.5b cpe:2.3:a:xfig:xfig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xfig xfig 3.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:xfig:xfig:3.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xfig xfig 3.2.5 cpe:2.3:a:xfig:xfig:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4228

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