CVE-2007-5378 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2007-5378

Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

tk toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 12th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.