An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61. A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash or possibly allow code execution.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61. A maliciously crafted file could     cause the application to crash or possibly allow code execution. (CVE-2017-2581)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for netpbm fixes the following issues :

Security bugs :

  - CVE-2017-2586: A NULL pointer dereference in     stringToUint function could lead to a denial of service     (abort) problem when processing malformed images.
    [bsc#1024292]

  - CVE-2017-2581: A out-of-bounds write in writeRasterPbm()     could be used by attackers to crash the decoder or     potentially execute code. [bsc#1024287]

  - CVE-2017-2587: A insufficient size check of memory     allocation in createCanvas() function could be used for     a denial of service attack (memory exhaustion)     [bsc#1024294]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for netpbm fixes the following issues: Security bugs :

  - CVE-2017-2586: A NULL pointer dereference in     stringToUint function could lead to a denial of service     (abort) problem when processing malformed images.
    [bsc#1024292]

  - CVE-2017-2581: A out-of-bounds write in writeRasterPbm()     could be used by attackers to crash the decoder or     potentially execute code. [bsc#1024287]

  - CVE-2017-2587: A insufficient size check of memory     allocation in createCanvas() function could be used for     a denial of service attack (memory exhaustion)     [bsc#1024294]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for netpbm fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2017-2581: An out-of-bounds write in     writeRasterPbm() could lead to memory corruption and     potential code execution. (bsc#1024287)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
220870	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-2581	Nessus	Misc.	high
101135	openSUSE Security Update : netpbm (openSUSE-2017-742)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
100909	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : netpbm (SUSE-SU-2017:1603-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
100834	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : netpbm (SUSE-SU-2017:1575-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2017-2581

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Tenable Plugins

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