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CVE-2007-5137

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Entered Topic
2007-10-05 tcl/tk -- buffer overflow in ReadImage function

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2007-5137
Phase Assigned(20070928)

Description

Buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in generic/tkImgGIF.c in Tcl (Tcl/Tk) 8.4.13 through 8.4.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multi-frame interlaced GIF files in which later frames are smaller than the first. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-5378.

References

Source Reference
MISC http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539
CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=541207
DEBIAN DSA-1743
FEDORA FEDORA-2007-2564
GENTOO GLSA-200710-07
MANDRIVA MDKSA-2007:200
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0136
SUSE SUSE-SR:2007:020
UBUNTU USN-529-1
VIM 20071012 clarification on multiple Tk overflow issues
BID 25826
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9540
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