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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-4924 Detail

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-4924
NVD Published Date:
10/08/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE