Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-4897
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).
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References
18- secunia.com/advisories/27127nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/27150nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/27518nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/28385nvdVendor Advisory
- blog.s21sec.com/2007/09/sobre-la-vulnerabilidad-del-ekiga.htmlnvd
- marc.infonvd
- openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sipcon.cxxnvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3138nvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0932.htmlnvd
- www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-036-en.txtnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479185/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25642nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-561-1nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36568nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10928nvd
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