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CVE-2007-3958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a certain GIF file, as demonstrated by Art.gif.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: all versions

References

• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
• http://osvdb.org/43773
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25013
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35538
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4215
• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
• http://osvdb.org/43773
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25013
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35538
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4215

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