Executive Summary

Summary
Title Updated opal packages fix vulnerability
Informations
Name MDKSA-2007:205 First vendor Publication 2007-11-02
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2007-11-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A flaw in opal, the Open Phone Abstraction Library, was found in how it handles certain Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash an application linked to opal, such as Ekiga.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:205

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11398
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11398
Title: The Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal), as used by (1) Ekiga before 2.0.10 and (2) OpenH323 before 2.2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Content-Length header field in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets, which causes a \0 byte to be written to an "attacker-controlled address."
Description: The Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal), as used by (1) Ekiga before 2.0.10 and (2) OpenH323 before 2.2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Content-Length header field in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets, which causes a \0 byte to be written to an "attacker-controlled address."
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-4924
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17309
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17309
Title: USN-562-1 -- opal vulnerability
Description: Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that certain SIP headers were not correctly validated.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-562-1
CVE-2007-4924
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Product(s): opal
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21836
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21836
Title: ELSA-2007:0957: opal security update (Moderate)
Description: The Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal), as used by (1) Ekiga before 2.0.10 and (2) OpenH323 before 2.2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Content-Length header field in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets, which causes a \0 byte to be written to an "attacker-controlled address."
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2007:0957-01
CVE-2007-4924
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): opal
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2009-07-24 OpenH323 Opal SIP Protocol Remote Denial of Service Exploit

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for opal MDKSA-2007:205 (opal)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDKSA_2007_205.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for opal vulnerability USN-562-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_562_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
41637 Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal) SIP Packet Malformed Content-Length Hea...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20071008_opal_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2007-0957.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-01-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-562-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_opal-4519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-05 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2007-205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_opal-4531.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-09 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0957.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 11:38:57
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