HIGH
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
Published Jun 21, 2007
7.8
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.96%
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.
Affected products
No data.
AND
AND
OR
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
Running on/with
OR
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007.1
- 3.0
- 3.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a user application such as Emacs to be a security issue.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
7.8 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.96% 0.01962
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01962
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (16 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.96% (0.01962) | 79.61th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.96% (0.01962) | 77.67th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.10% (0.01100) | 76.51th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 10.20% (0.10203) | 95.21th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 10.20% (0.10203) | 94.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 24, 2024 | 6.68% (0.06680) | 93.75th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 17, 2024 | 4.41% (0.04406) | 92.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 3.51% (0.03511) | 91.22th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 1, 2024 | 2.91% (0.02909) | 89.77th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 23, 2023 | 2.07% (0.02072) | 87.82th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 27, 2023 | 2.33% (0.02331) | 88.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.70% (0.01699) | 85.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 74.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 74.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 72.41th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 51.33th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (12)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:133 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018277 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-2833 Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2833
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2833
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:133 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA | |
| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018277 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-2833 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2833 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2833 |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 21, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 24, 2007
Link CVE-2007-2833
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a