National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3568
Original release date:07/05/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The _LoadBMP function in imlib 1.9.15 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a BMP image with a Bits Per Page (BPP) value of 0.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/06/2007)
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Red Hat does not consider bugs which result in a user-assisted crash of end user application to be a security issue.
- Official Statement from Mandriva (09/17/2007)
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Mandriva does not consider bugs which result in a user-assisted crash of end user applications to be a security issue.
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External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018332
External Source: BID
Name: 24750
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5WP030UM0W.html
External Source: XF
Name: dotclear-redacteur-xss(35325)