CVE-2007-6561

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in PDFLib allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename argument to the PDF_load_image function that results in an overflow in the pdc_fsearch_fopen function, and possibly other vectors.

Affected products

Pdflib: 7.0.2

References

http://osvdb.org/40275
http://secunia.com/advisories/28239
http://secunia.com/advisories/29304
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-17.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3495
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485479/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27001
http://osvdb.org/40275
http://secunia.com/advisories/28239
http://secunia.com/advisories/29304
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-17.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3495

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