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CVE-2008-4776

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4776 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libgadu before version 1.8.2, affecting products like wojtek_kaniewsk libgadu. A remote server can trigger a crash by sending a contact description with an excessively large length, leading to a buffer over-read. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of low severity, requiring medium attack complexity and resulting in only partial availability impact. 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
<= 1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wojtek_kaniewsk:libgadu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wojtek_kaniewsk:libgadu:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wojtek_kaniewsk:libgadu:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wojtek_kaniewsk:libgadu:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wojtek_kaniewsk:libgadu:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4776

libgadu: contact description buffer over-read vulnerability

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
lists.ziew.org / pipermail/libgadu-devel/2008-October/000331.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46158
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1664
securityfocus.com / bid/31951
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-692-1