Vulnerability in Gocr Optical Character Recognition Utility

CVE-2005-1142

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readpgm function in pnm.c for GOCR 0.40, when it is not using netpbm, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a P3 format PNM file with more data than implied by its width and height values.

EPSS: 0.031 (86.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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