Vulnerability CVE-2005-3662
Published: 2005-11-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Off-by-one buffer overflow in pnmtopng before 2.39, when using the -alpha command line option (Alphas_Of_Color), allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNM file with exactly 256 colors.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Greg roelofs -> Pnmtopng 

 References:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=370545
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-904
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:217
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-843.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15427
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2418
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9583
https://usn.ubuntu.com/218-1/
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