CVE-2007-5133

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Description

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480864/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480854/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480827/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480706/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480594/100/0/threaded

http://osvdb.org/45521

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-09-27

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.22913