CVE-2006-4005

Exp

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.

Published: 2006-08-07 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-4005 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.27%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.44% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-4005

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-4005

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-08-31 2.82% 4.27% +1.44%
2 2025-08-04 2.47% 2.82% +0.35%
3 2025-03-30 — 2.47% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-4005

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-4005

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-4005

vendor priority summary link
debian medium CVE-2006-4005 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (bomberclone), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4005
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-4005 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bomberclone), 9 status rows across 9 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, upstream): released 7, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-4005

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-4005

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bomberclone bomberclone 0.11.3 cpe:2.3:a:bomberclone:bomberclone:0.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bomberclone bomberclone 0.11.4 cpe:2.3:a:bomberclone:bomberclone:0.11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bomberclone bomberclone 0.11.5 cpe:2.3:a:bomberclone:bomberclone:0.11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bomberclone bomberclone 0.11.6 cpe:2.3:a:bomberclone:bomberclone:0.11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-4005

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