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ekiga: denial of service

Package(s):ekiga CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5621
Created:March 4, 2013 Updated:March 6, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Ekiga, a Gnome based SIP/H323 teleconferencing application, processed information from certain OPAL connections (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.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2998 2013-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2890 2013-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2998 2013-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2890 2013-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2998 2013-03-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2890 2013-03-03
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