CVE-2007-5133

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.

Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 17 years ago

2007-09-27 19:17:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-30 12:34:00

Affected Software

Microsoft windows 2003_gold

Microsoft windows 2003_gold compute_cluster

Microsoft windows 2003_gold datacenter

Microsoft windows 2003_gold enterprise

Microsoft Windows 2003 gold itanium

Microsoft windows 2003_gold storage

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Gold x64 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Gold x64 (64-bit) Datacenter Edition

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Gold x64 (64-bit) Enterprise Edition

Microsoft windows 2003_r2

Microsoft windows 2003_r2 compute_cluster

Microsoft windows 2003_r2 datacenter

Microsoft windows 2003_r2 enterprise

Microsoft windows 2003_r2 storage

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 Gold x64 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 (64-bit) Datacenter Edtion

Microsoft Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 (64-bit) Enterprise Edtion

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1

Microsoft windows 2003_sp1 compute_cluster

Microsoft windows 2003_sp1 datacenter

Microsoft windows 2003_sp1 enterprise

Microsoft windows 2003_sp1 storage

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2

Microsoft windows 2003_sp2 compute_cluster

Microsoft windows 2003_sp2 datacenter

Microsoft windows 2003_sp2 enterprise

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 Itanium

Microsoft windows 2003_sp2 storage

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 x64 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Vista gold

Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit

Microsoft windows xp_gold

Microsoft windows xp_gold embedded

Microsoft windows xp_gold media_center

Microsoft windows xp_gold tablet_pc

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 embedded

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 media_center

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 tablet_pc

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 embedded

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 media_center

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 x64 (64-bit)

Microsoft Windows XP

References

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20070925 Possible Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling

20070926 Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling

20070927 Re: Re: Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling

20070927 Re: Possible Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling

20070927 Re: Re: Re: Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling

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