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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…
Medium5.0EPSS 10.9%
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- mitre
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).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.9% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- 28385 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-561-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=292831 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070912 S21SEC-036-EN Ekiga <= 2.0.5 Denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1018683 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 27150 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 3138 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 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 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070912 S21SEC-036-EN Ekiga <= 2.0.5 Denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- ekiga-sipurlgethostaddress-dos(36568) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 27127 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 25642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-036-en.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 27518 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10928 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:206 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0932 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .