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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4262 Detail

Current Description

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/16/2009)

Red 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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/21601 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22239 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22515 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500 CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186 CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/28135 CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/28136 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19686 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19687 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3374 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28545 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28546 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9661 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4262
NVD Published Date:
08/23/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE