CVE-2010-4695

Summary

CVECVE-2010-4695
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-14 18:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-08-17 01:33:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-119

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
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 Debian Linux All All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 12 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 12 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gif2png: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
gif2png GIF Pathname Local File Creation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
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 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch CONFIRM cvs.fedoraproject.org Exploit, Patch
#550978 - gif2png: Command line buffer overflow - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gif2png-2.5.1-1202.fc12 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch CONFIRM cvs.fedoraproject.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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