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USN-561-1: pwlib vulnerability

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USN-561-1: pwlib vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/14/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

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).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpt-1-10-0

References

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