CVE-2006-4005
BomberClone 0.11.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) a certain malformed PKGF_ackreq…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
BomberClone 0.11.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) a certain malformed PKGF_ackreq packet, which triggers a crash in the rscache_add() function in pkgcache.c; and (2) an error packet, which is intended to be received by clients and force client shutdown, but also triggers server shutdown.
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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- 21303 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19255 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 27647 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- DSA-1180 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://aluigi.org/poc/bcloneboom.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 27649 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- bomberclone-rscacheadd-dos(28090) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- bomberclone-error-packet-dos(28093) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3067 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 21985 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2006-3998 (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-2006-4005)Record last updated .