ubuntu · CVE-2018-8975

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-03-25 03:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:59:47 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-8975 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (netpbm-free), 4 status rows across 4 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 2, DNE 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.c in Netpbm through 10.81.03 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, as demonstrated by pbmmask.

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