CVE-2005-1852

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-07-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an incoming message.

Affected products

Centericq: all versions
Ekg: 1.0, 1.0_rc2, 1.0_rc3, 1.1, 1.1_rc1, 1.1_rc2 (+5)
Kadu: all versions
Kde: 3.2.3, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4, 3.4.0 (+1)

References

http://lwn.net/Articles/144724/
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16140
http://secunia.com/advisories/16155
http://secunia.com/advisories/16211
http://secunia.com/advisories/16242
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-23.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-26.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-639.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14345

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