UBUNTU-CVE-2026-120431

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2026-120431

    Published: 2 Nov 2026Last Modified: 5 Nov 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2026-120431

    Summary:

    Details: Netpbm before 10.86.51, 11.x before 11.02.29, and 11.03 before 11.15.07 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in sgitopnm's readChannels() function when processing RLE-compressed SGI images. Attackers can supply crafted SGI files with oversized offset table lengths to write controlled data past the heap buffer, causing crashes or potential code execution.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-120431, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-120431, https://sourceforge.net/p/netpbm/code/5317/, https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/!svn/bc/5316/trunk/converter/other/sgitopnm.c, https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/!svn/bc/5318/advanced/doc/HISTORY, https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/!svn/bc/5319/stable/doc/HISTORY, https://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/!svn/bc/5371/super_stable/doc/HISTORY, https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netpbm-before-10.86.51-11.02.29-and-11.15.07-sgitopnm-heap-buffer-overflow

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: netpbm-free

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/netpbm-free?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2:10.0-15.2
    2:10.0-15.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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