Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5378

Title: Tcl Tk Tk Toolkit Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5378.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 12, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.64%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5378: 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.

Impacted Vendors

tcl_tk 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/27207 http://secunia.com/advisories/27295 http://secunia.com/advisories/27801 http://secunia.com/advisories/27806 http://secunia.com/advisories/29070 http://secunia.com/advisories/30129 http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 http://secunia.com/advisories/34297 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237465-1 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1415 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1416 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0135.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26056 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1456/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37189 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9480 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=1458234&group_id=12997 http://secunia.com/advisories/27207 http://secunia.com/advisories/27295 http://secunia.com/advisories/27801 http://secunia.com/advisories/27806 http://secunia.com/advisories/29070 http://secunia.com/advisories/30129 http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 http://secunia.com/advisories/34297 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237465-1 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1415 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1416 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0135.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26056 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1456/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37189 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9480 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=1458234&group_id=12997

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5378 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.

October 12, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.