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".
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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).
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 10.90% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- ekiga/ekiga
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.html
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=118959114522339&w=2
- http://openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sipcon.cxx?r1=2.120.2.25&r2=2.120.2.26&pathrev=v2_2_9
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27127Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27150Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27518Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28385Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3138
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:206
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0932.html
- http://www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-036-en.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479185/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25642
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018683
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-561-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=292831
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36568
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10928
- http://blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.html
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=118959114522339&w=2
- http://openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sipcon.cxx?r1=2.120.2.25&r2=2.120.2.26&pathrev=v2_2_9
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27127Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27150Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27518Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28385Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3138
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:206
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0932.html
- http://www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-036-en.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479185/100/0/threaded
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.