Description
Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an animated GIF in which the first subimage is smaller than a subsequent subimage, which triggers the overflow in the ReadImage function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5137.
Published: 2007-10-12
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1415-1 New tk8.4 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1416-1 New tk8.3 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1743-1 New libtk-img packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5356 Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an animated GIF in which the first subimage is smaller than a subsequent subimage, which triggers the overflow in the ReadImage function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5137.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-529-1 Tk vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Tcl Tk Tk Toolkit
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:31:58.730Z

Reserved: 2007-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5378

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-10-12T01:17:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-5378

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-5378 - Bugzilla

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