CVE-2005-2978 (GCVE-0-2005-2978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-10-18 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:53
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/210-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015071 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2133 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/17282 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-878 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/17221 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17357 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-793.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/17256 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/17265 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17222 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20051… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15128 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
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