CVE-2007-6532 — Double free vulnerability in the Widget Library (libxfcegui4) in Xfce before 4.4.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the "cliend id, program name and working directory in session management."

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HIGH

Double free vulnerability in the Widget Library (libxfcegui4) in Xfce before 4.4.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the "cliend id, program name and working directory in session management."

Published Jan 9, 2008

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.98%

Description

Double free vulnerability in the Widget Library (libxfcegui4) in Xfce before 4.4.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the "cliend id, program name and working directory in session management."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.98% 0.03983

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03983

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 (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.98% (0.03983)	90.18th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.98% (0.03983)	89.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	3.09% (0.03092)	85.60th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	11.30% (0.11303)	89.19th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	3.34% (0.03342)	86.47th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	5.80% (0.05797)	93.66th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2024	5.36% (0.05356)	93.13th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	3.98% (0.03979)	90.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	6.52% (0.06523)	91.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	6.52% (0.06523)	90.53th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	6.52% (0.06523)	78.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (4)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201292
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-06.xml
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0080
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.4.2
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201292		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-06.xml		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0080		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.4.2		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 9, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 27, 2007

Link CVE-2007-6532

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-6532

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-6532