National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2688
Original release date:08/05/2009
Last revised:08/18/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/06/2009)
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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/
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511994
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275397
External Source: XF
Name: xemacs-jpeg-bo(51334)
External Source: XF
Name: xemacs-png-bo(51333)
External Source: XF
Name: xemacs-tiff-bo(51332)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1666
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 35473
External Source: MISC
Name: http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue534
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35348
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 55298