Scientific Linux 5: CVE-2007-4924 Moderate Opal Security Advisory

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:23:22 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for opal on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: opal security update
Issue date:	2007-10-08
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4924

In Scientific Linux 5, the Ekiga application uses opal.

A flaw was discovered in the way opal handled certain Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) packets. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an
application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with opal. (CVE-2007-4924)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386.rpm
opal-devel-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm
opal-devel-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson