Vulnerability in Ekiga
CVE-2007-4897
pwlib, as used by Ekiga 2.0.5 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long argument to the PString::vsprintf function, related to a "memory management flaw". NOTE: this issue was originally reported as being in the SIPURL::GetHostAddress function in Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting).
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.109 (95.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.109 · newest: 0.109 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ekiga — versions 2.0.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/28385 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-561-1 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479185/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.html
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/27150 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3138 (third-party-advisory)
- openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sipcon.cxx
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)