Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package transfig  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TRANSFIG-1166094
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed4 Dec 2019

Introduced: 4 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream transfig package and not the transfig package as distributed by Ubuntu.

read_textobject in read.c in Xfig fig2dev 3.2.7b has a stack-based buffer overflow because of an incorrect sscanf.