CVE-2007-2833

Summary

CVECVE-2007-2833
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-06-21 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-05 21:24:00 UTC
DescriptionEmacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All alpha All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All amd64 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All arm All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All hppa All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All ia-32 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All ia-64 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All m68k All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All mips All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All mipsel All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All powerpc All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All s-390 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All sparc All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All alpha All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All amd64 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All arm All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All hppa All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All ia-32 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All ia-64 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All m68k All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All mips All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All mipsel All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All powerpc All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All s-390 All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All sparc All
Application Gnu Emacs 21 All All All
Application Gnu Emacs 21 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 All x86_64 All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 All All All
Operating System Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 All x86_64 All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-504-1: Emacs vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1316-1 emacs21 DEBIAN www.debian.org
#408929 - emacs21: crash on spam - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
GNU Emacs Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
GNU Emacs Image Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-06-26Mark J CoxRed Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a user application such as Emacs to be a security issue.
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