CVE-2021-45972

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    CVE-2021-45972

    Published: 1 Jan 2022Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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, http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739

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