CVE-2007-4897: ekiga Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2007-4897 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in ekiga. EPSS estimates a 10.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Timeline
- 14-09-2007PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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 metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
10.90%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
96%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 10.90% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundEkiga 2.0.5 - 'GetHostAddress' Remote Denial of Service
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Redhat3 products
- pwlib< 0:1.10.1-7.0.1.el5
- pwlib-debuginfo< 0:1.10.1-7.0.1.el5
- pwlib-devel< 0:1.10.1-7.0.1.el5
Debian2 products
- pwlib< 1.10.7~dfsg1-4+lenny1
- pwlib-titan< 1.11.2-1+lenny1
Ekiga1 product
- ekiga2.0.5
3 vendors · 6 products
References
24 links- blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.htmlX Refsource MISC
- openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/…X Refsource MISC
Show all 24 references
- www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-036-en.txtX Refsource MISC
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10928VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL