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CVE-2005-1141

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: 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 products

• Optical Character Recognition Project Optical Character Recognition: 0.40

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111358557823673&w=2
• http://www.overflow.pl/adv/gocr.txt
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111358557823673&w=2
• http://www.overflow.pl/adv/gocr.txt

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