CVE-2021-45972: The giftrans function in giftrans 1.12.2 contains a stack-based buffer overflow because a value inside the input file determines the amount of data to write…

PriorityP431high7.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNIHAH

EPSS

0.96%

58.1th percentile

The giftrans function in giftrans 1.12.2 contains a stack-based buffer overflow because a value inside the input file determines the amount of data to write. This allows an attacker to overwrite up to 250 bytes outside of the allocated buffer with arbitrary data.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	giftrans	—	—
giftrans_project	giftrans	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.05.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

osv7.1HIGH

vendor_debian7.1LOW

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