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CVE-2009-2175

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-06-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Henning Makholm Xcftools

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References