CVE-2021-45972

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Affected	—
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45972

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.