CVE-2007-4924

N/A Unknown
Published: October 08, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2007-September/msg00103.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sippdu.cxx?r1=2.83.2.19&r2=2.83.2.20
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://osvdb.org/41637
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/27118
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27128
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27129
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/27524
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/28380
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:205
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0957.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-037-en.txt
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482120/30/4500/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25955
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018776
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-562-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3413
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3414
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296371
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11398
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9240
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2007-September/msg00103.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net/openh323/opal/src/sip/sippdu.cxx?r1=2.83.2.19&r2=2.83.2.20
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://osvdb.org/41637
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/27118
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27128
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27129
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/27524
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/28380
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:205
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0957.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.s21sec.com/avisos/s21sec-037-en.txt
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482120/30/4500/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25955
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018776
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-562-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3413
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3414
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296371
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11398
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9240
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

44 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
10.7%
95th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Vendors

ekiga openh323_project

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