UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972
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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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-45972, http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/, https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45972
Affected packages
Package
Name: giftrans
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/giftrans?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
1.12.2-17ubuntu1
1.12.2-19
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
None
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Availability
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