CVE-2021-45972

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739

http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-01-01

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00245