CVE-2012-5621
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.8%EU EUVD
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.
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-20
- EPSS score
- 2.8% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5507)
- Published
- September 29, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5507 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ekiga / ekiga
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(Patch)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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