CVE-2005-1852: Centericq

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an incoming message.

Affected products

• Centericq Centericq: any version
• Ekg Ekg: version 1.0 only; version 1.0_rc2 only; version 1.0_rc3 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1_rc1 only; version 1.1_rc2 only; …
• Kadu Kadu: any version
• Kde Kde: version 3.2.3 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.3.1 only; version 3.3.2 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.4.0 only; …

Published 2005-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.