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CVE-2007-5378

Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allo

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.01415
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4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@ubuntu.com
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AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD12 Oct 2007 · 01:17 AM

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rhsaRHSA-2008:0135Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0134Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0136Moderate
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