Description
Multiple integer overflows in Cairo before 1.4.12 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG image with large width and height values, which is not properly handled by the read_png function.
Published: 2007-11-30
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 10.4% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1542-1 New libcairo packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5478 Multiple integer overflows in Cairo before 1.4.12 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG image with large width and height values, which is not properly handled by the read_png function.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-550-1 Cairo vulnerability
References
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200350 cve-icon cve-icon
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201860 cve-icon cve-icon
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5c7d2d14d78e4dfb1ef6d2c40f0910f177e07360 cve-icon cve-icon
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e49bcde27f88e21d5b8037a0089a226096f6514b cve-icon cve-icon
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff_plain%3Bh=6020f67f1a49cfe3844c4938d4af24c63c8424cc%3Bhp=c79fc9af334fd6f2d1078071d64178125561b187 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1078.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27775 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27819 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27880 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27887 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27985 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28289 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28476 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28529 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28555 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29767 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31707 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31711 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-04.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.362119 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0015 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1542 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-24.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:019 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486405/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495869/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26650 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019027 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4045 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2466 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387431 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38771 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1966 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5503 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11251 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/550-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/550-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5503 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00630.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Redhat Cairo Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:31:58.821Z

Reserved: 2007-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5503

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-30T01:46:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-5503

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-5503 - Bugzilla

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