Description
The Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal), as used by (1) Ekiga before 2.0.10 and (2) OpenH323 before 2.2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Content-Length header field in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets, which causes a \0 byte to be written to an "attacker-controlled address."
Published: 2007-10-08
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 22.5% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-562-1 opal vulnerability
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Ekiga Ekiga
Openh323 Project Openh323
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:08:34.248Z

Reserved: 2007-09-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4924

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-10-08T21:17:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-4924

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4924 - Bugzilla

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