Bug#454133: pwlib: CVE-2007-4897 remote denial of service

[Nico Golde]

Package: pwlib
Version: 1.10.2-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for pwlib.

CVE-2007-4897[0]:
| pwlib, as used by Ekiga 2.0.5 and possibly other products, allows
| remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via
| a long argument to the PString::vsprintf function, related to a
| "memory management flaw". NOTE: this issue was originally reported as
| being in the SIPURL::GetHostAddress function in Ekiga (formerly
| GnomeMeeting).

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4897

Kind regards
Nico

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