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CVE-2005-2370

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2370 describes multiple memory alignment errors within the libgadu library, impacting applications like ekg before 1.6rc2 and Gaim before 1.5.0. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (bus error) on specific architectures, such as SPARC, through specially crafted incoming messages. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability, easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6_rc1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ekg:ekg:1.6_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2370Low

security flaw

Jul 21, 2005

References

gaim.sourceforge.net / security/index.php
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16265
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10456
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-813
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1318
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/24600