CVE-2007-3475

The GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a GIF image that has no global color map.

Published: 2007-06-28 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-3475 is rated Moderate Risk (52.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 14.43%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +2.34% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-3475

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-08 12.09% 14.43% +2.34%
2 2026-02-14 11.68% 12.09% +0.41%
3 2025-09-12 11.68%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-3475

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-3475

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-3475

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2007-3475 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libgd2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3475
gentoo normal CVE-2007-3475: 1 GLSA(s) (200708-05), 1 atom(s) (media-libs/gd); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2007-3475
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-3475
ubuntu low CVE-2007-3475 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libgd2), 6 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, upstream): not-affected 4, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-3475

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2007-3475

  • Red Hat (2007-09-05T00:00:00)

    Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-3475 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-3475

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gd_graphics_library gdlib <= 2.0.34 cpe:2.3:a:gd_graphics_library:gdlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-3475

URL Tags
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/gd-2.0.35-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=70
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-205.shtml
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052848.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052854.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25860
http://secunia.com/advisories/26272
http://secunia.com/advisories/26390
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415
http://secunia.com/advisories/26467
http://secunia.com/advisories/26663
http://secunia.com/advisories/26766
http://secunia.com/advisories/26856
http://secunia.com/advisories/29157
http://secunia.com/advisories/30168
http://secunia.com/advisories/42813
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-05.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
http://www.libgd.org/ReleaseNote020035 Patch
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:153
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:164
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00311.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0146.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478796/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24651
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0022
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=277421
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1643
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9728
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