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.
Published 2007-06-21 20:30:00
Updated 2008-09-05 21:24:09
Source MITRE
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Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Products affected by CVE-2007-2833

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-2833

10.20%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 95 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2007-2833

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
7.8
HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
10.0
6.9
NIST

Vendor statements for CVE-2007-2833

  • Red Hat 2007-06-26
    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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