CVE-2007-5133

Windows 2003 Server - Denial of Service via Malformed PNG tEXt Chunk

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-5133. PoCs published by Xavier Roche.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided entry describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Explorer due to improper handling of malformed PNG files. Exploitation leads to CPU exhaustion and unresponsiveness.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by Xavier Roche · textdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30619

The provided entry describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Explorer due to improper handling of malformed PNG files. Exploitation leads to CPU exhaustion and unresponsiveness.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Microsoft Windows Explorer
No auth needed
Prerequisites: A malformed PNG file
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480594/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480854/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480706/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480827/100/0/threaded
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25816
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/45521
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480864/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.5276
EPSS Percentile 98.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-189 CWE-399
Status published
Products (5)
3ware/3dm_disk_management_software (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2003_server (26 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_server_2003 (4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista (13 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_xp (5 CPE variants)
Published Sep 27, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026