CVE-2007-2833

Published: 21 June 2007

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
emacs21 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (21.4a-3ubuntu2.1)
	edgy	Released (21.4a-6ubuntu2.1)
	feisty	Released (21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1)
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-504-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2833
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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