CVE-2021-45909

high

Description

An issue was discovered in gif2apng 1.9. There is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the DecodeLZW function. It allows an attacker to write a large amount of arbitrary data outside the boundaries of a buffer.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00008.html

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002668

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-28

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High