{"id":"CVE-2021-45972","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:42:33.600619Z","published":"2022-01-01T21:15:07.730Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-45972.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.12.2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"11.0"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"}]}