Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU35978

Code Injection in ekiga - CVE-2011-1830

Published: April 22, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU35978

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1830

CWE-ID: CWE-94

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Gnome Development Team

Affected software:
ekiga

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Ekiga versions before 3.3.0 attempted to load a module from /tmp/ekiga_test.so.

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