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
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http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/ | Broken Link |
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739 | Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti | Broken Link |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-01-01T20:36:57
Updated: 2022-01-01T20:36:57
Reserved: 2022-01-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-45972
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-01-01T21:15:07.730
Modified: 2023-08-08T14:21:49.707
Link: CVE-2021-45972
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CWE