CVE-2008-4776

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

libgadu before 1.8.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a contact description with a large length, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

Wojtek Kaniewsk Libgadu: through 1.8.1; 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.8.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
http://lists.ziew.org/pipermail/libgadu-devel/2008-October/000331.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1664
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31951
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-692-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468830
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46158
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
http://lists.ziew.org/pipermail/libgadu-devel/2008-October/000331.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1664
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31951
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-692-1

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