CVE-2007-4924
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2007-4924 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2007-10-08 21:17:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC |
| 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." |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
NoneIntegrity
NoneAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Ekiga | Ekiga | All | All | All | All |
| Application | Openh323 Project | Openh323 | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opal Library Input Validation Flaw in Processing SIP Header Content-Length Values Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| Repository / Oval Repository | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | oval.cisecurity.org | |
| Bug 296371 – CVE-2007-4924 ekiga remote crash caused by insufficient input validation | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.redhat.com | |
| rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.redhat.com | Patch |
| USN-562-1: opal vulnerability | Ubuntu | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.ubuntu.com | |
| Page not found – S21Sec | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.s21sec.com | |
| SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| Mandriva update for opal - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| Webmail - OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| OpenH323 Opal SIP Protocol Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:205 | Mandriva | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.mandriva.com | |
| Ekiga opal Session Initiation Protocol Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| Ubuntu update for opal - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| Red Hat update for opal - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| Webmail - OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| OpenH323 Opal SIP Protocol Remote Denial of Service Exploit | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.exploit-db.com | |
| CVS Info for project openh323 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | openh323.cvs.sourceforge.net | |
| [security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2007:021 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| osvdb.org/41637 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | osvdb.org | |
| [Ekiga-list] [ANNOUNCE] Ekiga 2.0.10 released | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | mail.gnome.org | Patch |
| SecurityFocus | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| OpenH323 opal Session Initiation Protocol Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.