CVE-2007-5133

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.

Affected products

3Ware 3Dm Disk Management Software: all versions
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/45521
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480594/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480706/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480827/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480854/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480864/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25816
http://osvdb.org/45521
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480594/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480706/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480827/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480854/100/0/threaded

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