CVE-2007-4963

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2007-4963 · Published 18/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4963 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting winimage (winimage).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
winimage winimage	`= 8.0= 8.10`	No fix yet

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in WinImage 8.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof a destination filename via a long sequence of space characters in a filename within a (1) .IMG or (2) .ISO file. NOTE: this can be leveraged with a separate directory traversal vulnerability to trick a careful user into overwriting arbitrary files.

References

osvdb.org/45948
securityreason.com/securityalert/3140
securityfocus.com/archive/1/479695/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/479872/100/100/threaded

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