CVE-2012-5621

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-5621
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-09-29 22:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
Descriptionlib/engine/components/opal/opal-call.cpp in ekiga before 4.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an OPAL connection with a party name that contains invalid UTF-8 strings.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ekiga Ekiga All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Ekiga UTF-8 Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE-2012-5621 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Ekiga (Third Party Vulnerability Resolution Blog) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.oracle.com
Validate UTF-8 strings before showing them (7d098072) · Commits · GNOME / ekiga · GitLab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.gnome.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: opal-3.10.10-1.fc18 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.0.news af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.gnome.org
oss-sec: Re: CVE Request -- Ekiga (x < 4.0.0): DoS (crash) after receiving call from other party with not UTF-8 valid name af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Bug 883058 – CVE-2012-5621 ekiga: DoS (crash) after receiving call from other party with not UTF-8 valid name af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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