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).
Published: 2007-09-14
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 22.7% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-561-1 pwlib vulnerability
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Ekiga Ekiga
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:08:33.970Z

Reserved: 2007-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4897

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-09-14T18:17:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-4897

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-09-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4897 - Bugzilla

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