National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4274
Original release date:02/12/2010
Last revised:01/19/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in converter/ppm/xpmtoppm.c in netpbm before 10.47.07 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an XPM image file that contains a crafted header field associated with a large color index value.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (02/17/2010)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4274
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546580
External Source: XF
Name: netpbm-xpm-bo(56207)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0780
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0358
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 38164
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:1811
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100209 vulnerability in netpbm (CVE-2009-4274)
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:039
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2026
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38915
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38530
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netpbm/stable/doc/HISTORY?view=markup
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netpbm/stable/converter/ppm/xpmtoppm.c?view=patch&r1=995&r2=1076&pathrev=1076
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:006
