CVE-2010-4695: Catb GIF2PNG

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Catb GIF2PNG: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only

Published 2011-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.