MEDIUM
firefox: crash on fuzzed gif image
Published Apr 17, 2008
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.04%
Description
Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted image, as demonstrated by the zzuf lol-firefox.gif test case.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Red Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw is not exploitable beyond causing the web browser to crash.
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.
4.3 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.04% 0.01044
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01044
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 | 1.04% (0.01044) | 62.84th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.04% (0.01044) | 59.53th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.68% (0.00683) | 69.95th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 2.07% (0.02068) | 89.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 23, 2024 | 1.30% (0.01296) | 85.66th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 17, 2024 | 1.20% (0.01198) | 84.98th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.20% (0.01198) | 82.97th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (9)
- http://hboeck.de/archives/578-How-long-does-it-take-to-fix-a-crash-bug.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://osvdb.org/44727 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities x_refsource_MISC
- http://sam.zoy.org/zzuf/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27243 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6715 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443058 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6715
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6715
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://hboeck.de/archives/578-How-long-does-it-take-to-fix-a-crash-bug.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://osvdb.org/44727 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB | |
| http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://sam.zoy.org/zzuf/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27243 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6715 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443058 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6715 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6715 |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 17, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Apr 17, 2008
Link CVE-2007-6715
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a