CVE-2005-2978 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2978
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-210-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_24_sr.html ST 1015071 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17256 Secunia Advisory: SA17222 Secunia Advisory: SA17221 Secunia Advisory: SA17357 Secunia Advisory: SA17265 Secunia Advisory: SA17282 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-793.html MISC GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-18.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-878 BID 15128

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