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CVE-2007-2833

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-2833 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Emacs 21, affecting Debian, GNU, and Mandrakesoft distributions. A user-assisted attacker can crash the application by providing a specially crafted image, such as a GIF in vm mode, due to an issue with image size calculation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity with network access, low attack complexity, and a complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:amd64:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:arm:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:hppa:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:ia-32:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-2833

CVE-2007-2833

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/26987
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1490
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1316
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
securityfocus.com / bid/24570
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-504-1