An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61.

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11762

cvss: 4.5; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 2

netpbm_project netpbm 10.61.00

debian suse

netpbm-free Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:10.97.00-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2581

netpbm SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 10.66.3-7.1
netpbm SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 10.26.44-101.14.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1603-1 SUSE-SU-2017:1575-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-2581 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 4.5

netpbm: Out-of-bounds write in writeRasterPbm() function

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 netpbm, netpbm-progs
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 netpbm, netpbm-progs
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Netpbm netpbm

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2581
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/96710
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-2581
NVD CVE-2017-2581

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Summary