National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3145
Original release date:06/22/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in pamtofits of NetPBM 10.30 through 10.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code when assembling the header, possibly related to an off-by-one error.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This issue did not affect the versions of NetPBM distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: BID
Name: 18525
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2449
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=425770
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20729
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: netpbm-pamtofits-offbyone-bo(27244)
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0037
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20775