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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:55:21 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Damien Sandras <dsandras@...onix.com>,
        Eugen Dedu <eugen.dedu@...pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Ekiga (x < 4.0.0): DoS (crash)
 after receiving call from other party with not UTF-8 valid name

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On 12/03/2012 10:36 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> a denial of service flaw was found in the way Ekiga, a Gnome based
> SIP/H323 teleconferencing application, processed information from
> certain OPAL connections ([certain] UTF-8 strings were not verified
> for validity prior showing them). A remote attacker (other party
> with a not UTF-8 valid name) could use this flaw to cause ekiga
> executable crash.
> 
> Upstream bug report: [1]
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653009
> 
> Relevant upstream patch: [2]
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/commit/?id=7d09807257
> 
> References: [3]
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.0.news 
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883058
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team

Please use CVE-2012-5621 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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