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CVE-2009-4227 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xfig), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
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.