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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2688 Detail

Description

Multiple integer overflows in glyphs-eimage.c in XEmacs 21.4.22, when running on Windows, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the tiff_instantiate function processing a crafted TIFF file, (2) the png_instantiate function processing a crafted PNG file, and (3) the jpeg_instantiate function processing a crafted JPEG file, all which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 2.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  10.0 HIGH
Vector:  (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/06/2009)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2688 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/55298 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35348 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue534 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35473 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1666 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275397 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511994 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51332 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51333 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51334 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:xemacs:xemacs:21.4.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-2688
NVD Published Date:
08/05/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE