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netpbm -- buffer overflow in pnmtopng

Affected packages
		netpbm	<	10.26

Details

VuXML ID	ae9fb0d7-c4dc-11da-b2fb-000e0c2e438a
Discovery	2005-10-18
Entry	2006-04-05

Ubuntu reports:

A buffer overflow was found in the "pnmtopng" conversion program. By tricking an user (or automated system) to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	15128
CVE Name	CAN-2005-2978
URL	http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-210-1