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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-2833

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-2833

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/21/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-emacs
  • suse-upgrade-emacs-el
  • suse-upgrade-emacs-info
  • suse-upgrade-emacs-nox
  • suse-upgrade-emacs-x11
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

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