CVE-2007-5133 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in Windows Explorer by tricking a user into opening a malicious PNG file with a large text chunk.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-5133?
CVE-2007-5133 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 27 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5133?
It affects 5 products.
Products include 3ware 3dm Disk Management Software, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Xp.
How do I fix CVE-2007-5133?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-5133 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2007-5133 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-5133 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-867p-v845-fc48.