Description
Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.
Published: 2007-09-27
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: 52.4% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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3ware 3dm Disk Management Software
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows Xp
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:17:28.339Z

Reserved: 2007-09-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5133

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-09-27T19:17:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-5133

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