CVE-2007-4897
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 10.9%EU EUVD
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).
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-399
- EPSS score
- 10.9% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4878)
- Published
- September 14, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4878 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ekiga / ekiga
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27150(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27518(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28385(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25642
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018683
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-561-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=292831
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36568
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10928
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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