CVE-2021-45972

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-01-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1284

Description

The giftrans function in giftrans 1.12.2 contains a stack-based buffer overflow because a value inside the input file determines the amount of data to write. This allows an attacker to overwrite up to 250 bytes outside of the allocated buffer with arbitrary data.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
Giftrans Project Giftrans: 1.12.2

References

http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti
http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti

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