Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 12, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-5378
CVE-2007-5378
Description
Buffer overflow in the FileReadGIF function in tkImgGIF.c for Tk Toolkit 8.4.12 and earlier, and 8.3.5 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an animated GIF in which the first subimage is smaller than a subsequent subimage, which triggers the overflow in the ReadImage function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5137.
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References
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- secunia.com/advisories/27295nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27801nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27806nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29070nvd
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- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threadednvd
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