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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5378

Original release date:10/12/2007
Last revised:03/20/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2007)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5378 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=1458234&group_id=12997
Hyperlink:https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=1458234&group_id=12997
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1743
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34297
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34297
External Source: XF
Name: tktoolkit-filereadgif-dos(37189)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37189
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-529-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1
External Source: BID
Name: 26056
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26056
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0135
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0135.html
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0134
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:200
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1744
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1456
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1456/references
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1416
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1416
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1415
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1415
External Source: VIM
Name: 20071012 clarification on multiple Tk overflow issues
Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 237465
Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237465-1
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30535
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30535
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30129
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30129
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29070
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29070
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27806
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27806
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27801
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27801
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27295
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27295
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27207
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27207

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5378