CVE-2009-2175

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-2175 · Published 23/06/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-2175 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting xcftools (henning makholm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 88.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xcftools henning_makholm	`= 1.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the flattenIncrementally function in flatten.c in xcftools 1.0.4, as reachable from the (1) xcf2pnm and (2) xcf2png utilities, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image that causes a conversion to a location "above or to the left of the canvas." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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