Vulnerability CVE-2009-2688
Published: 2009-08-05   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Xemacs -> Xemacs 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511994
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275397
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51334
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51333
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51332
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1666
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35473
http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue534
http://secunia.com/advisories/35348
http://osvdb.org/55298
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