CVE-2007-4897

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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 products

Gnome Ekiga: 2.0.5

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/27127
http://secunia.com/advisories/27150
http://secunia.com/advisories/27518
http://secunia.com/advisories/28385
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

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