FKIE_CVE-2010-4695

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-01-14 18:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:25
Severity
Summary
A 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
cve@mitre.orghttp://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&r1=1.1&r2=1.2Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-15.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45920
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64819
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&r1=1.1&r2=1.2Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-15.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45920
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64819
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
catb gif2png 2.5.1
catb gif2png 2.5.2
debian linux *
redhat fedora 12
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