National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4799
Original release date:10/31/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
pamperspective in Netpbm before 10.35.48 does not properly calculate a window height, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted image file that triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/31/2008)
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This issue can only cause pamperspective to crash when used on specially crafted messages. We do not consider this to be a security issue.
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-6999
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-6982
External Source: XF
Name: netpbm-pamperspective-pngtopnm-bo(46054)
External Source: BID
Name: 31871
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081023 Re: CVE Request (netpbm)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081022 CVE Request (netpbm)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netpbm/stable/doc/HISTORY