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CVE-2005-3662

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2005-11-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Greg Roelofs Pnmtopng

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References