CVE-2012-5621 (GCVE-0-2012-5621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-09-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:14
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-10-20 00:00
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