CVE-2010-4695
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4660)
- 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-2010-4660 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- catb / gif2png
- catb / gif2png
- debian / linux
- redhat / fedora
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(Exploit, Patch)
- 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(Exploit)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64819
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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