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netpbm -- buffer overflow in pnmtopng

Description:

Ubuntu reports:

A buffer overflow was found in the "pnmtopng" conversion program. By tricking an user (or automated system) to process a specially crafted PNM image with pnmtopng, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pnmtopng.

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Affects:

portaudit: netpbm -- buffer overflow in pnmtopng

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>