CVE-2007-2833

HIGH 7.8CVE-2007-2833 · Published 21/06/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-2833 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting emacs (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
emacs gnu	`= 21`	No fix yet

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.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com/advisories/26987
debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316
mandriva.com/security/advisories
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
securityfocus.com/bid/24570
securitytracker.com/id
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490

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