National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1852
Original release date:07/26/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 14345
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200507-23
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2005-624
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:639
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2005:019
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200507-26
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16242
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16211
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16155
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16140
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050721 Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package
Type: Advisory