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CVE-2007-4897

MEDIUM

5.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1250%

EPSS Percentile14.90th

PublishedSep 14, 2007

Last ModifiedApr 23, 2026

Vulnerability 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).

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Ekiga

Ekiga

= 2.0.5

References & Advisories

🔗 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/27127

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/27150

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/27518

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/28385

🔗 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3138

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