CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1141

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2005-04-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-04-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the readpgm function in pnm.c for GOCR 0.40, when using the netpbm library, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNM file with large width and height values, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• optical character recognition project optical character recognition 0.40

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References