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NetPBM "pnmtopng" Stack Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17221
Release Date: 2005-10-19
Popularity: 7,902 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:NetPBM 10.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Bastien Nocera has reported a vulnerability in NetPBM, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of uninitialised variables by "pnmtopng" in the "closestColorInPalette()" function. This may be exploited to cause stack corruption and may allow arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious ".pnm" file.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 10.25. Other versions may also be affected.

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