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CVE-2012-5621

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

lib/engine/components/opal/opal-call.cpp in ekiga before 4.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an OPAL connection with a party name that contains invalid UTF-8 strings.

Affected products

• Gnome Ekiga: through 3.9.90

References

• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.0.news
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/407
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56790
• https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_5621_denial_of
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883058
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80640
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/commit/?id=7d09807257
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099554.html
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.0.news
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/407
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56790
• https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_5621_denial_of

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