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Message-ID: <4B17BF2B.2090608@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:37:47 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request -- xfig

Hi Josh, Steve, vendors,

   PEDAMACHEPHEPTOLIONES reported [1] a stack-based buffer overflow present
in Xfig by loading malformed .FIG files.

 From what I can tell, xfig-3.2.d doesn't seem to be affected by this,
but xfig-3.2.4 && xfig-3.2.5 clearly are.

Also, the reporter claims about arbitrary code execution possibility,
but I don't think this is possible due the non-executable stack protection.

Anyway, could you allocate a CVE identifier?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559274

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