National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2006-4262)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4262

Original release date:08/23/2006

Last revised:06/19/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.1 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/16/2009): Red 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

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1101

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 28136

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/28136

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 28135