CVE-2010-4695

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-4695
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-14 18:00:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionA certain Fedora patch for gif2png.c in gif2png 2.5.1 and 2.5.2, as distributed in gif2png-2.5.1-1200.fc12 on Fedora 12 and gif2png_2.5.2-1 on Debian GNU/Linux, truncates a GIF pathname specified on the command line, which might allow remote attackers to create PNG files in unintended directories via a crafted command-line argument, as demonstrated by a CGI program that launches gif2png, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-5018.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Catb Gif2png 2.5.1 All All All
Application Catb Gif2png 2.5.2 All All All
Operating System Debian Linux All All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 12 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gif2png: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
#550978 - gif2png: Command line buffer overflow - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
547515 – (CVE-2009-5018, CVE-2010-4694, CVE-2010-4695) CVE-2009-5018 CVE-2010-4694, CVE-2010-4695 gif2png: command-line buffer overflow problem af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvs.fedoraproject.org Exploit, Patch
cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvs.fedoraproject.org
gif2png GIF Pathname Local File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gif2png-2.5.1-1202.fc12 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
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