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CVE-2009-1364

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1364 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the embedded GD library within libwmf 0.2.8.4, affecting various OpenSUSE and Francis James Franklin libwmf products. This flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted WMF file. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, enabling partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, readily available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.2.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francis_james_franklin:libwmf:0.2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0346 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libwmf-0:0.2.8.3-5.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libwmf-0:0.2.8.4-10.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1364Moderate

libwmf: embedded gd use-after-free error

Apr 27, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00051.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00053.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-0457.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/34901
secunia.com / advisories/34964
secunia.com / advisories/35001
secunia.com / advisories/35025
secunia.com / advisories/35190
secunia.com / advisories/35416
secunia.com / advisories/35686
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200907-01.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/50290
launchpad.net / bugs/cve/2009-1364
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10959
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01263.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01266.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01269.html
wvware.cvs.sourceforge.net / viewvc/wvware/libwmf2/src/extra/Makefile.am
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1796
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/34792
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-769-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1228