Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 28, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-5137
CVE-2007-5137
Description
Buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in generic/tkImgGIF.c in Tcl (Tcl/Tk) 8.4.13 through 8.4.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multi-frame interlaced GIF files in which later frames are smaller than the first. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-5378.
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References
20- secunia.com/advisories/26942nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.phpnvdPatch
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cginvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27086nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27182nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27207nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27229nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27295nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29069nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/34297nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xmlnvd
- www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743nvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.htmlnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25826nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9540nvd
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.htmlnvd
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