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


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:17:37 -0500 (EST)

Steve,

I don't have any 2009 IDs. Can you take this one.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Kurt Seifried" <kurt () seifried org> wrote:

This is from 2009 but doesn't appear to have a CVE (no "gif2png" in
the CVE database).

Sources:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-December/072009.html

Description:
A buffer overflow in gif2png 2.5.3 and earlier allows an attacker to
execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument passed to the
gif2png binary.

It was first claimed that it was fixed in 2.5.2 but it is reported
that it isn't fixed, I tested 2.5.3 and it still seg faults the same
way as 2.5.2 so it would appear it was never fixed, as the software
was last updated in 2005 I guess this one never gets fixed.

-- 
Kurt Seifried
kurt () seifried org
tel: 1-703-879-3176


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