Package name opal
Date November 2nd, 2007
Advisory ID MDKSA-2007:205
Affected versions 2007.0, 2007.1

Problem Description

A flaw in opal, the Open Phone Abstraction Library, was found in
how it handles certain Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets.
An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash an application
linked to opal, such as Ekiga.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007

 337dc6f6f00747d93d833d462b388001  2007.0/i586/libopal2-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
 72b7fa693dcfa0bd9eb947c9efc48089  2007.0/i586/libopal2-devel-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
 ee93a37f7426e9564f93ea526a60f3f6  2007.0/SRPMS/opal-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 c4502c7d03ddecd7a2fa0aa788888594  2007.0/x86_64/lib64opal2-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
 3acdb9831b86988832032c61de7178b3  2007.0/x86_64/lib64opal2-devel-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
 ee93a37f7426e9564f93ea526a60f3f6  2007.0/SRPMS/opal-2.2.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 d544b489474818208d00d1a2abcf6821  2007.1/i586/libopal2-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 689aef82cbaf8bf1a0dbea2e688a44ea  2007.1/i586/libopal2-devel-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 72fef0012c30c0771b97bc0aadcd47fe  2007.1/SRPMS/opal-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 cdaf928352d65caa57c00068467f74e8  2007.1/x86_64/lib64opal2-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 2b6695ed410c7ec3021b7e194d603fca  2007.1/x86_64/lib64opal2-devel-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 72fef0012c30c0771b97bc0aadcd47fe  2007.1/SRPMS/opal-2.2.6-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4924

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