CVE-2007-5378

Tk GIF processing buffer overflow

Published Oct 12, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an animated GIF in which the first subimage is smaller than a subsequent subimage, which triggers the overflow in the ReadImage function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5137.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1415-1 New tk8.4 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1416-1 New tk8.3 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1743-1 New libtk-img packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5356 Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an animated GIF in which the first subimage is smaller than a subsequent subimage, which triggers the overflow in the ReadImage function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5137.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-529-1 Tk vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
canonical
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:31 PM
Reserved
Oct 11, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 12, 2007, 1:17 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:45 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 25, 2006, 12:00 AM