CVE-2026-112276 PUBLISHED

Netpbm through 11.16.00 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via rasttopnm Colormap

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 19.10.2026 Published: 19.10.2026 Updated: 19.10.2026

Netpbm through 11.16.00 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in rasttopnm that allows attackers to read heap memory by supplying Sun rasterfiles with short colormaps. Attackers can craft colormapped rasterfiles with pixel bytes exceeding the palette length to leak up to 255 adjacent heap bytes into the PNM output or crash the program.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor Netpbm
Product Netpbm
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 11.16.00 (incl.)

Credits

  • HaiND from the Post and Telecommunication Institute of Technology finder

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Read CWE