Netpbm up to 10.86.50/11.02.29/11.15.7 XPM File xpmtoppm characters-per-pixel heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Netpbm up to 10.86.50/11.02.29/11.15.7. This issue affects the function xpmtoppm of the component XPM File Handler. The manipulation of the argument characters-per-pixel results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-120435. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Netpbm up to 10.86.50/11.02.29/11.15.7. Affected is the function xpmtoppm of the component XPM File Handler. The manipulation of the argument characters-per-pixel with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Netpbm before 10.86.51, 11.x before 11.02.30, and 11.03 before 11.15.08 contains a heap buffer overflow in xpmtoppm caused by an unvalidated characters-per-pixel value in the XPM header. Attackers can supply a crafted XPM file with characters-per-pixel greater than 3 to overrun fixed 3-byte colorName hash entries, causing crashes or potentially code execution.

The advisory is shared for download at sourceforge.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-120435 since 11/02/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 10.86.51, 11.02.30 or 11.15.08 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Netpbm

Version

• 10.86.0
• 10.86.1
• 10.86.2
• 10.86.3
• 10.86.4
• 10.86.5
• 10.86.6
• 10.86.7
• 10.86.8
• 10.86.9
• 10.86.10
• 10.86.11
• 10.86.12
• 10.86.13
• 10.86.14
• 10.86.15
• 10.86.16
• 10.86.17
• 10.86.18
• 10.86.19
• 10.86.20
• 10.86.21
• 10.86.22
• 10.86.23
• 10.86.24
• 10.86.25
• 10.86.26
• 10.86.27
• 10.86.28
• 10.86.29
• 10.86.30
• 10.86.31
• 10.86.32
• 10.86.33
• 10.86.34
• 10.86.35
• 10.86.36
• 10.86.37
• 10.86.38
• 10.86.39
• 10.86.40
• 10.86.41
• 10.86.42
• 10.86.43
• 10.86.44
• 10.86.45
• 10.86.46
• 10.86.47
• 10.86.48
• 10.86.49
• 10.86.50
• 11.02.0
• 11.02.1
• 11.02.2
• 11.02.3
• 11.02.4
• 11.02.5
• 11.02.6
• 11.02.7
• 11.02.8
• 11.02.9
• 11.02.10
• 11.02.11
• 11.02.12
• 11.02.13
• 11.02.14
• 11.02.15
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• 11.02.22
• 11.02.23
• 11.02.24
• 11.02.25
• 11.02.26
• 11.02.27
• 11.02.28
• 11.02.29
• 11.15.0
• 11.15.1
• 11.15.2
• 11.15.3
• 11.15.4
• 11.15.5
• 11.15.6
• 11.15.7

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