CVE-2007-2833: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
  • GNU Emacs: version 21 only

Published 2007-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.