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CVE-2006-4005 json

BomberClone 0.11.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) a certain malformed PKGF_ackreq…

published 2006-08-07 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3998

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bomberclone Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.11.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4005

Exploit prediction

3.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19255 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • aluigi.org http://aluigi.org/poc/bcloneboom.zip referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • aluigi.altervista.org http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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