CVE-2007-5378

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5378
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercanonical
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-12 01:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tcl Tk Tk Toolkit All All All All
Application Tcl Tk Tk Toolkit All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1415-1 tk8.4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:200 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Tk Toolkit / Read-Only Bugs / #2043 Segmentation fault when using animated GIFs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Tcl/Tk Tk Toolkit TKIMGGIF.C Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Ubuntu update for tk - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
VMware ESX Server Multiple Security Updates - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva update for tk - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Debian update for tk8.4 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1416-1 tk8.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1743-1 libtk-img af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
VMSA-2008-0009.2 - VMware af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Debian update for tk8.3 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for tcltk - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for libtk-img - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
USN-529-1: Tk vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[VIM] clarification on multiple Tk overflow issues af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.attrition.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-10-16Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5378 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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