Vulnerability · Published Jan 1, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-45972
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the giftrans package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 63% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 37.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | giftrans | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Debian:13 | giftrans | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Debian:14 | giftrans | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | giftrans | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | giftrans | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | giftrans | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | giftrans | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | giftrans | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2021-45972 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002739 x_refsource_MISC
- http://web.archive.org/web/20150801185019/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.abdn.ac.uk/tools/ibmpc/giftrans/index.hti x_refsource_MISC