CVE-2010-4695

Description

A certain Fedora patch for gif2png.c in gif2png 2.5.1 and 2.5.2, as distributed in gif2png-2.5.1-1200.fc12 on Fedora 12 and gif2png_2.5.2-1 on Debian GNU/Linux, truncates a GIF pathname specified on the command line, which might allow remote attackers to create PNG files in unintended directories via a crafted command-line argument, as demonstrated by a CGI program that launches gif2png, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-5018.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64819

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45920

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-15.xml

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3