Summary
The remote host is missing an update to netpbm-free announced via advisory DSA 263-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20263-1
Insight
Al Viro and Alan Cox discovered several maths overflow errors in NetPBM, a set of graphics conversion tools. These programs are not installed setuid root but are often installed to prepare data for processing. These vulnerabilities may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-8.2.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your netpbm package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0146 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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