CVE-2007-4897

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).

Risk Information

Base Score

8.4

MODERATE

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

22.073

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2007:0932) Moderate: pwlib security update pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2007:0932) Moderate: pwlib security update pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2007:0932) Moderate: pwlib security update pwlib-devel-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2007:0932) Moderate: pwlib security update pwlib-devel-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234