Vulnerability in GNU Emacs
CVE-2007-2833
Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (80.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Emacs — versions 21
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux — versions 2007, 2007.1
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
References
- www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570 (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26987 (third-party-advisory)
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490