Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4776 First vendor Publication 2008-10-28
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

libgadu before 1.8.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a contact description with a large length, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4776

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17899
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17899
Title: USN-692-1 -- ekg, libgadu vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that the Gadu library, used by some Instant Messaging clients, did not correctly verify certain packet sizes from the server.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-692-1
CVE-2008-4776
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.10
 Product(s): ekg
libgadu
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18513
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18513
Title: DSA-1664-1 ekg - denial of service
Description: It was discovered that ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client performs insufficient input sanitising in the code to parse contact descriptions, which may result in denial of service.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1664-1
CVE-2008-4776
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ekg
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7621
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7621
Title: DSA-1664 ekg -- missing input sanitising
Description: It was discovered that ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client performs insufficient input sanitising in the code to parse contact descriptions, which may result in denial of service.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1664
CVE-2008-4776
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ekg
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-10 Name : Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:208-1 (libgadu)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_208_1.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:208 (libgadu)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_208.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for ekg, libgadu vulnerability USN-692-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_692_1.nasl
2008-11-19 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1664-1 (ekg)
File : nvt/deb_1664_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50042 libgadu Contact Description Handling Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_kdenetwork4-101119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_kde4-kdnssd-101119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_kdenetwork3-101119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_kdenetwork4-101119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-12-23 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kdenetwork3-7245.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-12-16 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kde4-kdnssd-101119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_libgadu-081030.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-692-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1664.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-31 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_libgadu-5717.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31951
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468830
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1664
MLIST http://lists.ziew.org/pipermail/libgadu-devel/2008-October/000331.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-692-1
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46158

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