National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1852

Overview

Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an incoming message.

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External Source: BID

Name: 14345

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14345

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200507-23

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-23.xml

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2005-624

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lwn.net/Articles/144724/

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:639

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-639.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2005:019

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200507-26

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-26.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16242

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16242

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16211

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16211

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16155

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16155

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16140

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16140

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20050721 Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2