Emacs 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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DSA |
DSA-1316-1 | New emacs21 packages fix denial of service |
EUVD |
EUVD-2007-2825 | Emacs 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-504-1 | Emacs vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.659Z
Reserved: 2007-05-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-2833
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-06-21T20:30:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-2833
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN