CVE-2007-5137
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5118)
- Published
- September 28, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5118 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tcl tk / tcl tk
- tcl tk / tcl tk
- tcl tk / tcl tk
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26942(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27086
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27182
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27207
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27295
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29069
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34297
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xml
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=541207(Patch)
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25826
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9540
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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