CVE-2009-4274: Netpbm

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in converter/ppm/xpmtoppm.c in netpbm before 10.47.07 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an XPM image file that contains a crafted header field associated with a large color index value.

Affected products

• Netpbm Netpbm: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.2 only; version 10.3 only; version 10.4 only; version 10.5 only; …

Published 2010-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.