CVE-2004-0687: OpenBSD

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) xpmParseColors in parse.c, (2) ParseAndPutPixels in create.c, and (3) ParsePixels in parse.c for libXpm before 6.8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed XPM image file.

Affected products

• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 8 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only
• X.org x11r6: version 6.7.0 only; version 6.8 only
• XFREE86 Project x11r6: version 3.3.6 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2.11 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.1.0 only; …

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.