Netpbm
CVE-2018-8975
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, read limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
The pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.c in Netpbm through 10.81.03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, as. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate array indices and buffer lengths. Use memory-safe languages. Enable AddressSanitizer during testing.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125), which allows attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries. The pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.c in Netpbm through 10.81.03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, as demonstrated by pbmmask. Affected products include: Netpbm Project Netpbm. Version information: through 10.81.03.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
The pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.c in Netpbm through 10.81.03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, as demonstrated by pbmmask.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers
Heap buffer overflow in Netpbm's jbigtopnm converter allows a crafted multi-plane JBIG file with large header dimensions
Heap buffer overflow in Netpbm's xpmtoppm converter allows an attacker who supplies a crafted XPM file with a characters
Stack-based buffer overflow in Netpbm's picttoppm converter allows a crafted PICT file to overflow the fixed-size coord
Stack-based buffer overflow in Netpbm's picttoppm PICT-to-PPM converter lets an attacker who supplies a crafted PICT fil
Heap memory corruption in Netpbm's winicontopam converter affects releases before 10.86.51, 11.02.30, and 11.15.08, wher
Heap-based buffer overflow in Netpbm's sgitopnm converter affects releases before 10.86.51, 11.x before 11.02.29, and 11
Out-of-bounds read in Netpbm's tgatoppm converter allows a crafted color-mapped Targa file to crash the tool or leak adj
Heap out-of-bounds read in Netpbm's rasttopnm converter through 11.16.00 can expose up to 255 adjacent heap bytes in gen
Heap-based out-of-bounds write in Netpbm's rasttopnm Sun rasterfile decoder (pr_load_image) allows an unauthenticated lo
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