CVE-2006-6627
Integer overflow in the packed PE file parsing implementation in BitDefender products before 20060829, including Antivirus, Antivirus…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 7.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in the packed PE file parsing implementation in BitDefender products before 20060829, including Antivirus, Antivirus Plus, Internet Security, Mail Protection for Enterprises, and Online Scanner; and BitDefender products for Microsoft ISA Server and Exchange 5.5 through 2003; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka the "cevakrnl.xmd vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.4% · top 5.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- 21610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1017389 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 2044 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.bitdefender.com/KB323-en--cevakrnl.xmd-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20061215 BitDefender AV Packed PE File Parsing Engine Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 23415 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061215 BitDefender AV Packed PE File Parsing Engine Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5040 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- bitdefender-pefile-bo(30904) (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-2006-6610 (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-2006-6627)Record last updated .