CVE-2007-5137

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in generic/tkImgGIF.c in Tcl (Tcl/Tk) 8.4.13 through 8.4.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multi-frame interlaced GIF files in which later frames are smaller than the first. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-5378.

Affected products

Tcl Tk: 8.4.13, 8.4.14, 8.4.15

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539
http://secunia.com/advisories/26942
http://secunia.com/advisories/27086
http://secunia.com/advisories/27182
http://secunia.com/advisories/27207
http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27295
http://secunia.com/advisories/29069
http://secunia.com/advisories/34297
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=541207
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html

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