Vulnerability CVE-2006-4262
Published: 2006-08-23   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10
6.4/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Cscope -> Cscope 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28546
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28545
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3374
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19687
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19686
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
http://www.osvdb.org/28136
http://www.osvdb.org/28135
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/22515
http://secunia.com/advisories/22239
http://secunia.com/advisories/21601
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9661
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