CVE-2007-4924

Public Exploit

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."

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 22.66% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-4924?
CVE-2007-4924 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-4924?
To fix CVE-2007-4924, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2007-4924 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2007-4924 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~23% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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