CVE-2007-6531

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Panel (xfce4-panel) component in Xfce before 4.4.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Launcher tooltips. NOTE: a second buffer overflow (over-read) in the xfce_mkdirhier function was also reported, but it might not be exploitable for a crash or code execution, so it is not a vulnerability.

Affected products

Xfce: through 4.4.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201289
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201293
http://osvdb.org/43422
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-06.xml
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0080
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.4.2
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201289
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201293
http://osvdb.org/43422
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-06.xml
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0080
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.4.2

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