CVE-2008-2542: Nasa Ames Research Center Bigview

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getline function in Ppm/ppm.C in NASA Ames Research Center BigView 1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNM file.

Affected products

• Nasa Ames Research Center Bigview: version 1.8 only

Published 2008-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.