CVE-2021-45910

high

Description

An issue was discovered in gif2apng 1.9. There is a heap-based buffer overflow within the main function. It allows an attacker to write data outside of the allocated buffer. The attacker has control over a part of the address that data is written to, control over the written data, and (to some extent) control over the amount of data that is written.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00008.html

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002667

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-28

Updated: 2022-03-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High