CVE-2006-4262
Multiple buffer overflows in cscope 15.5 and earlier allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 4.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
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)
- 4.0% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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
17
- DSA-1186 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 21601 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- cscope-cscopelists-bo(28545) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1101 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 28135 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22239 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22515 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3374 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9661 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 19686 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 19687 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-200610-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 28136 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- cscope-reffile-bo(28546) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2006-4250 (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-2006-4262)Record last updated .