CVE-2006-4262
Published Aug 23, 2006
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Multiple buffer overflows in cscope 15.5 and earlier allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple vectors including (1) a long pathname that is not properly handled during file list parsing, (2) long pathnames that result from path variable expansion such as tilde expansion for the HOME environment variable, and (3) a long -f (aka reffile) command line argument.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.1
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-119
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was not vulnerable to this issue as it contained a backported patch since its first release. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, this issue was addressed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7D9324B0-3391-4D44-AA10-FAF870445F0E",
"versionEndIncluding": "15.5"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]