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high 7.5

CVE-2005-1852 json

Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other pac…

published 2005-07-26 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1854

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an incoming message.

Patch / fix

  • kdenetwork RHEL 4 7:3.3.1-2.3
  • kdenetwork-nowlistening RHEL 4 7:3.3.1-2.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:639

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-1852 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 kdenetwork 3.3.1-2.3, kdenetwork-nowlistening 3.3.1-2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 kdenetwork 3.3.1-2.3, kdenetwork-nowlistening 3.3.1-2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 kdenetwork 3.3.1-2.3, kdenetwork-nowlistening 3.3.1-2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 kdenetwork 3.3.1-2.3, kdenetwork-nowlistening 3.3.1-2.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:639

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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