CVE-2009-5018
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 10.9%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in gif2png.c in gif2png 2.5.3 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command-line argument, as demonstrated by a CGI program that launches gif2png.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 10.9% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-4976)
- Published
- January 14, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-4976 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
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- catb / gif2png
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- catb / gif2png
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- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
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- catb / gif2png
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- catb / gif2png
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978(Patch)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346501
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gif2png/devel/gif2png-overflow.patch?root=extras&view=log(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html(Patch)
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-December/072009.html(Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/21/1(Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/1(Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/22/3
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42796(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-01.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:009
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41801
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3036(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0023(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0107
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547515(Exploit, Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64820
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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