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CVE-2006-0709
Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 6.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0105.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- 1015654 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 18796 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 19226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200603-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- metamail-boundary-bo(24702) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:047 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 18987 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19130 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-995 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0217 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 19000 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16611 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19304 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0565 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0716 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0709)Record last updated .