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CVE-2006-0855
Stack-based buffer overflow in the fullpath function in misc.c for zoo 2.10 and earlier, as used in products such as Barracuda Spam…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the fullpath function in misc.c for zoo 2.10 and earlier, as used in products such as Barracuda Spam Firewall, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ZOO file that causes the combine function to return a longer string than expected.
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 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.3% 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: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
21
- 1015866 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 19408 (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
- 19166 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1220 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19514 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 546 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- GLSA-200603-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1015668 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/barracuda-advisory-ZOO.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19130 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- zoo-misc-bo(24904) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0705 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.guay-leroux.com/projects/zoo-advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-991 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20060403 Barracuda ZOO archiver security bug leads to remote compromise (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20060223 zoo contains exploitable buffer overflows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19002 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19148 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16790 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2006-0860 (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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