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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2006-4262 json

Multiple buffer overflows in cscope 15.5 and earlier allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execut…

published 2006-08-23 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4250

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • cscope Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 15.5+cvs20060902-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4262

  • cscope RHEL 3 15.5-16.RHEL3
  • cscope RHEL 4 15.5-10.RHEL4.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1101

  • cscope openSUSE Tumbleweed 15.9-1.9

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10705-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-4262 updated cvss 3.7

cscope: multiple buffer overflows

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 cscope 15.5-16.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 cscope 15.5-16.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 cscope 15.5-10.RHEL4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 cscope 15.5-10.RHEL4.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 cscope 15.5-16.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 cscope 15.5-10.RHEL4.3
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 cscope 15.5-16.RHEL3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 cscope 15.5-10.RHEL4.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1101

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.