CVE-2007-5503

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Cairo before 1.4.12 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG image with large width and height values, which is not properly handled by the read_png function.

Affected products

RedHat Cairo: through 1.4.10

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200350
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201860
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5c7d2d14d78e4dfb1ef6d2c40f0910f177e07360
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e49bcde27f88e21d5b8037a0089a226096f6514b
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff_plain%3Bh=6020f67f1a49cfe3844c4938d4af24c63c8424cc%3Bhp=c79fc9af334fd6f2d1078071d64178125561b187
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1078.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27775
http://secunia.com/advisories/27819
http://secunia.com/advisories/27880
http://secunia.com/advisories/27887

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