Vulnerability in Netpbm
CVE-2005-2978
pnmtopng in netpbm before 10.25, when using the -trans option, uses uninitialized size and index variables when converting Portable Anymap (PNM) images to Portable Network Graphics (PNG), which might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the stack.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.049 (91.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.049 · newest: 0.049 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Netpbm — versions 10.0, 10.1, 10.2
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/210-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2133 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/17282 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-878 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17221 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17357 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-793.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17256 (third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)