CVE-2006-4262

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-4262
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-08-23 10:04:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-11 01:31:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cscope Cscope All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
28135 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Cscope Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SourceForge.net: xmpp4js-commit CONFIRM sourceforge.net
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Cscope 'cscope.lists' Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
SourceForge.net: xmpp4js-commit CONFIRM sourceforge.net
Cscope: Multiple buffer overflows — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Debian update for cscope - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
203645 – (CVE-2006-4262) CVE-2006-4262 cscope: multiple buffer overflows CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1186-1 cscope DEBIAN www.debian.org
Gentoo update for cscope - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
28136 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Cscope Reffile Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-06-16Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was not vulnerable to this issue as it contained a backported patch since its first release. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, this issue was addressed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html

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