Vulnerability CVE-2005-1142
Published: 2005-04-15   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GOCR -> Optical character recognition utility 

 References:
http://www.overflow.pl/adv/gocr.txt
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111358557823673&w=2
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