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Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-5018
Stack-based buffer overflow in gif2png.c in gif2png 2.5.3 and earlier...
Vulnerability Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in gif2png.c in gif2png 2.5.3 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command-line argument, as demonstrated by a CGI program that launches gif2png.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/12
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0023
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:009
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/3
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42796
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346501
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41801
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3036
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/21/1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0107
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-01.xml
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/1
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-December/072009.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64820
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
Affected Vendor
catb
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gif2png
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.99, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
January 14th, 2011
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.