Re: CVE Request: gif2png: command-line buffer overflow problem

[Kurt Seifried <kurt () seifried org>]

> How could this possibly be exploited?  If you can trick a user into
> running gif2png [exploit payload], then that user has already lost.

It was reported that some CGI scripts/etc use it automatically so by
using a long file name it may be possible.

Personally I'm not worried but Debian/Fedora have fixed it as a
security issue so if that is the case a CVE would be nice for tracking
purposes.

> See also:
> make `perl -e 'print "A"x10000'`
>
> -Dan


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