CVE-2007-2833 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-2833?

CVE-2007-2833 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Jun 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2833?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gnu Emacs.

How do I fix CVE-2007-2833?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-2833 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DSA-1316-1, GHSA-87rf-xcxq-w82r.