National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2833
Original release date:06/21/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/26/2007)
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Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a user application such as Emacs to be a security issue.
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External Source: BID
Name: 24570
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1316
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-504-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018277
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:019
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:133
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26987