NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package transfig (opens in a new tab)
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- published21 Sept 2021
- disclosed20 Sept 2021
Introduced: 20 Sep 2021
CVE-2021-32280 (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.
An issue was discovered in fig2dev before 3.2.8.. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function compute_closed_spline() located in trans_spline.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service. The fixed version of fig2dev is 3.2.8.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-32280
- https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/fig2dev/ci/f17a3b8a7d54c1bc56ab92512531772a0b3ec991/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/107/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00044.html