debian · CVE-2005-3662

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: Updated: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:30:09 GMT

View at Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2005-3662 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (netpbm-free), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

cvelogic Threat Intelligence