Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-4262
CVE-2006-4262
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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References
17- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/21601nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/22239nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/22515nvdVendor Advisory
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3374nvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xmlnvd
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.phpnvd
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.phpnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186nvd
- www.osvdb.org/28135nvd
- www.osvdb.org/28136nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19686nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19687nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28545nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28546nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9661nvd
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