CVE-2007-4897 (GCVE-0-2007-4897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-14 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:08
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2007-09-11 00:00
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