CVE-2005-3662 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U http://secunia.com/advisories/17544 http://secunia.com/advisories/17671 http://secunia.com/advisories/17679 http://secunia.com/advisories/17828 http://secunia.com/advisories/18186 http://secunia.com/advisories/18517 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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9583 https://usn.ubuntu.com/218-1/