CVE-2009-2286

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-2286 · Published 01/07/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-2286 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting compface (james ashton).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
compface james_ashton	`= 1.4= 1.5= 1.5.1≤ 1.5.2`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in compface 1.5.2 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long declaration in a .xbm file. NOTE: this issue only affects compface on distributions that used a certain patch.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/29/2
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/29/4
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/03/1
securityfocus.com/bid/35863

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