CVE-2007-6561
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.7EPSS 6.7%EU EUVD
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in PDFLib allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename argument to the PDF_load_image function that results in an overflow in the pdc_fsearch_fopen function, and possibly other vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.7 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.7% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6527)
- Published
- December 28, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6527 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pdflib / pdflib
References
- http://osvdb.org/40275
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28239(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29304
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-17.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3495
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485479/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27001(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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