CVE-2009-2286

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

01/07/2009

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in compface 1.5.2 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long declaration in a .xbm file. NOTE: this issue only affects compface on distributions that used a certain patch.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:james_ashton:compface::::::::		1.5.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:james_ashton:compface:1.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:james_ashton:compface:1.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:james_ashton:compface:1.5.1:::::::*

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CVE-2009-2286

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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