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CVE-2005-2448

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2448 describes multiple "endianness errors" in the libgadu library, specifically affecting ekg before version 1.6rc2. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service on big-endian systems, leading to invalid application behavior. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a low-severity issue, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low exploitation risk.

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
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 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-2005-2448Important

security flaw

Jul 21, 2005

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16140
secunia.com / advisories/16155
secunia.com / advisories/16363
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11263
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-813
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1318
securityfocus.com / bid/14415
securityfocus.com / bid/24600