01 Record
CVE-2012-5621
lib/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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
lib/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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-09-29 22:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-10-24
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8dbe5eb833bdfcb25579cdd0f74d48bfb2eee4c0a5b717ffd0075b45ace0bca2
05 Affected products
06 References
- blogs.oracle.comhttps://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_5621_denial_of
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883058
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-2998https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/099554.html
- ftp.gnome.orghttp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.0.news
- git.gnome.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/commit/?id=7d09807257
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comekiga-utf8-dos(80640)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80640
- www.securityfocus.com56790http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56790
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20121203 Re: CVE Request -- Ekiga (x < 4.0.0): DoS (crash) after receiving call from other party with not UTF-8 valid namehttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/407