RHSA-2007:0957: Moderate: opal security update

First published: Mon Oct 08 2007(Updated: )

Open Phone Abstraction Library (opal) is implementation of various<br>telephony and video communication protocols for use over packet based <br>networks.<br>In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the Ekiga application uses opal.<br>A flaw was discovered in the way opal handled certain Session Initiation <br>Protocol (SIP) packets. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an <br>application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with opal. (CVE-2007-4924)<br>Users should upgrade to these updated opal packages which contain a <br>backported patch to correct this issue.

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