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medium 4.5

CVE-2017-2580 json

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61.

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11761

cvss
4.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in netpbm before 10.61. A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash or possibly allow code execution.

Patch / fix

  • netpbm-free Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:10.97.00-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2580

  • netpbm SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP4 +5 more 10.66.3-8.7.2
  • netpbm SLES 11 SP4-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 10.26.44-101.15.5.2
  • netpbm SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 +1 more 10.80.1-3.8.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1645-1SUSE-SU-2019:14101-1SUSE-SU-2019:1525-1

  • netpbm openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Leap 15.0 10.80.1-lp151.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:1605-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-2580 updated cvss 4.5

netpbm: Out-of-bounds write of heap data

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 netpbm, netpbm-progs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 netpbm, netpbm-progs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Netpbm netpbm

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.