CVE-2005-2370: Ekg

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple "memory alignment errors" in libgadu, as used in ekg before 1.6rc2, Gaim before 1.5.0, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bus error) on certain architectures such as SPARC via an incoming message.

Affected products

• Ekg Ekg: version 1.1 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6_rc1 only; version 2005-04-11 only; …
• Rob Flynn Gaim: up to and including 1.4.0

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