Vulnerability CVE-2010-4695
Published: 2011-01-14   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
CATB -> Gif2png 

 References:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64819
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45920
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-15.xml
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
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