CVE-2008-4799

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

pamperspective in Netpbm before 10.35.48 does not properly calculate a window height, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted image file that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4799 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue can only cause pamperspective to crash when used on specially crafted messages. We do not consider this to be a security issue.

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