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tk: denial of service

Package(s):tk8.3 tk8.4 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-5137
Created:October 12, 2007 Updated:March 17, 2009
Description: It was discovered that Tk could be made to overrun a buffer when loading certain images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, remote attackers could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1743-1 2009-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0136-01 2008-02-21
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1131 2008-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2007-728 2007-10-17
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:200 2007-10-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2564 2007-10-18
Ubuntu USN-529-1 2007-10-11
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