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CVE-2007-5636 (GCVE-0-2007-5636)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-23 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:39
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the Nortel UNIStim IP Softphone 2050 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a flood of invalid characters to the RTCP port (5678/udp) that triggers a Windows error message, aka "extraneous messaging."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/27252 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3271 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.csnc.ch/static/advisory/csnc/nortel_UN… x_refsource_MISC
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTND… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3540 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://osvdb.org/38521 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26118 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-10-17 00:00
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