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CVE-2005-1852

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1852 describes multiple integer overflows within the libgadu library, impacting applications like Kopete, ekg, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, and Kadu. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code through specially crafted incoming messages. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0_rc2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.0_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0_rc3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.0_rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.1_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0470 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kdenetwork-7:3.3.1-2.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1852Critical

security flaw

Jul 21, 2005

References

lwn.net / Articles/144724
PatchVendor Advisory
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16140
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16155
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16211
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/16242
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200507-23.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9532
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-26.xml
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-639.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14345
Patch