CVE-2007-5503
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.5%EU EUVD
Multiple integer overflows in Cairo before 1.4.12 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using a crafted PNG image with large width and height values, which is not properly handled by the read_png function.
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-189
- EPSS score
- 5.5% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5478)
- Published
- November 30, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5478 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / cairo
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200350
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201860
- http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5c7d2d14d78e4dfb1ef6d2c40f0910f177e07360
- http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e49bcde27f88e21d5b8037a0089a226096f6514b
- http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo%3Ba=commitdiff_plain%3Bh=6020f67f1a49cfe3844c4938d4af24c63c8424cc%3Bhp=c79fc9af334fd6f2d1078071d64178125561b187
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1078.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27775(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27819(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27880(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27887(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27985(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28289(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28476(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28529(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28555(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28838(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29767(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31707(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31711(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-04.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.362119
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0015
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1542
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-24.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:019
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486405/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495869/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26650
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019027
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0014.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4045(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2466(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387431
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38771
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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