CVE-2007-5503

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2007-5503 · Published 30/11/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5503 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting cairo (redhat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.5%, higher than 92.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cairo redhat	`≤ 1.4.10`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
gitweb.freedesktop.org
gitweb.freedesktop.org
gitweb.freedesktop.org
lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1078.html · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/27775 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/27819 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/27880 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/27887 · Vendor Advisory

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