National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4262
Original release date:08/23/2006
Last revised:09/20/2011
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):
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
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
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: cscope-reffile-bo(28546)
External Source: XF
Name: cscope-cscopelists-bo(28545)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3374
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 19687
External Source: BID
Name: 19686
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1101
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 28136
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 28135
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1186
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200610-08
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22515
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22239
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21601
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9661
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9661
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5