CVE-2007-4980

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2007-4980 · Published 19/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4980 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting gcaldaemon (gcaldaemon).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.8%, higher than 91.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gcaldaemon gcaldaemon	`= 1.0_beta13`	No fix yet

Description

The readRequest method in org/gcaldaemon/core/http/HTTPListener.java in GCALDaemon 1.0-beta13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large integer value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a fatal Java OutOfMemoryError.

References

osvdb.org/40922
securityreason.com/securityalert/3154
securityfocus.com/archive/1/479816/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/25704
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36670

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