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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2017-2587 json

A memory allocation vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61.

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11766

cvss
3.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A memory allocation vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61. A maliciously crafted SVG file could cause the application to crash.

Patch / fix

  • netpbm_project netpbm 10.61.00
  • netpbm SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 10.66.3-7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1603-1

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-2017-2587 updated cvss 3.3

netpbm: Insufficient size check of memory allocation in createCanvas() function

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

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

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Netpbm netpbm

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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