CVE-2009-5018

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64820

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0107

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0023

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3036

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41801

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:009

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-01.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/42796

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/3

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/12

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/1

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/21/1

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-December/072009.html

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.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346501

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3