Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5137

Title: Tcl Tk RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5137.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Sep 28, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5137: 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.

Impacted Vendors

tcl_tk 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539 http://secunia.com/advisories/26942 http://secunia.com/advisories/27086 http://secunia.com/advisories/27182 http://secunia.com/advisories/27207 http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 http://secunia.com/advisories/27295 http://secunia.com/advisories/29069 http://secunia.com/advisories/34297 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=541207 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25826 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9540 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539 http://secunia.com/advisories/26942 http://secunia.com/advisories/27086 http://secunia.com/advisories/27182 http://secunia.com/advisories/27207 http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 http://secunia.com/advisories/27295 http://secunia.com/advisories/29069 http://secunia.com/advisories/34297 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=541207 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25826 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9540 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5137 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 28, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.