CVE-2007-6697

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in IMG_gif.c in SDL_image before 1.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file, a similar issue to CVE-2006-4484. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Sdl Image: through 1.2.6

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207933
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120110205511630&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/28640
http://secunia.com/advisories/28752
http://secunia.com/advisories/28830
http://secunia.com/advisories/28837
http://secunia.com/advisories/28850
http://secunia.com/advisories/28869
http://secunia.com/advisories/29542
http://vexillium.org/?sec-sdlgif
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0061
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1493

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