CVE-2007-2833

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 4.0
GNU Emacs: 21

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:133
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018277
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316

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