Out-of-bounds Read Affecting chneukirchen/netpbm-mirror package, versions [,10.47.63]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.93% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHNEUKIRCHENNETPBMMIRROR-2369463
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5849  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for chneukirchen/netpbm-mirror.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1