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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:15:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Ulrik Persson <ddefrostt@...il.com>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Xfig: Stack-based buffer overflow
by processing FIG image with crafted color definition
Please use CVE-2010-4262
Thanks.
--
JB
----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> the Team of Underground Stockholm researchers reported:
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657981
>
> i.e:
>
> A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in
> the way Xfig processed certain FIG images. A remote
> attacker could create a FIG image with specially-crafted
> color definition, and trick the local, unsuspecting
> user into opening it, which could lead to xfig executable
> crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with
> the privileges of the user running the executable.
>
> Public PoC:
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=463393
>
> Flaw severity note:
> On systems with compile time buffer checks (FORTIFY_SOURCE)
> feature enabled, the impact of this flaw is mitigated to
> be only crash.
>
> Could you allocate CVE id for this?
>
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
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