CVE-2010-4695

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Catb Gif2Png: 2.5.1, 2.5.2

References

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

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