CVE-2006-4262

CVE Details

Release Date:2006-08-23
Impact:Low What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 5.1
Vector String: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: High
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (cscope)ELSA-2009-11012009-06-15
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (cscope)ELSA-2009-11012009-06-15


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