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CVE-2007-5690
Buffer overflow in sethdlc.c in the Asterisk Zaptel 1.4.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges via a long device name (interface…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in sethdlc.c in the Asterisk Zaptel 1.4.5.1 might allow local users to gain privileges via a long device name (interface name) in the ifr_name field. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating that the application requires root access, so privilege boundaries are not crossed
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 71% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20071020 [ELEYTT] Public Advisory 20-10-2007 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- zaptel-sethdlc-bo(37335) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asa/AST-2007-024.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20071108 AST-2007-024 - Fallacious security advisory spread on the Internet involving buffer overflow in Zaptel's sethdlc application (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 26160 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1018885 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.eleytt.com/advisories/eleytt_ZAPTEL.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 3319 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-5662 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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