CVE-2007-4643
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
Integer underflow in Doomsday (aka deng) 1.9.0-beta5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a PKT_CHAT packet with a data length less than 3, which triggers an erroneous malloc, possibly related to the Sv_HandlePacket function in sv_main.c.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4625)
- Published
- August 31, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4625 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- doomsday / doomsday
References
- http://aluigi.org/poc/dumsdei.zip(Exploit)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190835
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26524(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28821
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-02.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3084
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478077/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25483(Exploit)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36338
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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