Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-45972 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
giftrans-project
debian
CWE-1284
NVD
Published: 2022-01-01
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Giftrans_Project
1
OS
Debian
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References