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CVE-2006-5876
The soup_headers_parse function in soup-headers.c for libsoup HTTP library before 2.2.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The soup_headers_parse function in soup-headers.c for libsoup HTTP library before 2.2.99 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed HTTP headers, probably involving missing fields or values.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% 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 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- DSA-1248 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 22034 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-965 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23961 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23734 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0173 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.99.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31667 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-109 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 23871 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23770 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23873 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-411-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 23976 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- libsoup-soupheadersparse-dos(31519) (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-2006-5860 (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-2006-5876)Record last updated .