ekg up to 2005-06-05 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ekg up to 2005-06-05. It has been classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2005-2448. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in ekg up to 2005-06-05 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple "endianness errors" in libgadu in ekg before 1.6rc2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid behavior in applications) on big-endian systems.

The weakness was presented 08/03/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-2448 since 08/03/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21954 (CentOS 4 : kdenetwork (CESA-2005:639)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117888 (CentOS Security Update for kdenetwork (CESA-2005:639)).

Upgrading to version 1.6rc2 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (21490), Tenable (21954), SecurityFocus (BID 24600†), OSVDB (18127†) and Secunia (SA16140†). See VDB-25862, VDB-25861, VDB-25858 and VDB-37496 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 21954
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : kdenetwork (CESA-2005:639)
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OpenVAS ID: 58424
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1318-1 (ekg)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ekg 1.6rc2

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07/21/2005 🔍
07/22/2005 +1 days 🔍
08/03/2005 +12 days 🔍
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06/23/2007 +353 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +2818 days 🔍
06/09/2019 +1551 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-2448 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-2448
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-25933

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X-Force: 21490
SecurityFocus: 24600 - EKG Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 16140 - ekg libgadu Integer Overflow Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 18127 - libgadu on Big-Endian Architecture Unspecified Issue
Vulnerability Center: 9184 - Libgadu DoS via Multiple Endianness Errors, Medium

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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/09/2019 14:52
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (72), 06/09/2019 14:52 (6)
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