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CVE-2007-4227

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a certain JPG file, as demonstrated by something.jpg. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2007-3958.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0, 7

References

• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475655/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25207
• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-extended-file-attributes-buffer.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475655/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25207

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