CVE-2008-0554

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the readImageData function in giftopnm.c in netpbm before 10.27 in netpbm before 10.27 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF image, a similar issue to CVE-2006-4484.

Affected products

Netpbm: through 10.26

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464056
http://secunia.com/advisories/29079
http://secunia.com/advisories/30280
http://secunia.com/advisories/32607
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-665-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1579
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:039
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0131.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27682
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019358
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0460
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2216

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