Published: 21/06/2007 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 694

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Emacs 21 allows user-assisted malicious users 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.

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debian debian_linux 4.0
gnu emacs 21

Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain GIF images By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF, a remote attacker could cause emacs21 to crash, resulting in a denial of service ...

It has been discovered that emacs, the GNU Emacs editor, will crash when processing certain types of images For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 214a+1-3etch1 We recommend that you upgrade your emacs21 package ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:133 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018277 http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 https://usn.ubuntu.com/504-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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