CVE-2007-0460

Multiple buffer overflows in ulogd for SUSE Linux 9.3 up to 10.1, and possibly other distributions, have unknown impact and attack vectors related to "improper string length calculations."

Published: 2007-01-23 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-0460 is rated High Risk (71/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.56%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +2.00% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-0460

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 2026-06-15 0.55% 2.56% +2.00%
2 2025-09-12 0.53% 0.55% +0.02%
3 2025-03-30 0.53%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-0460

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-0460

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-0460

vendor priority summary link
gentoo high CVE-2007-0460: 1 GLSA(s) (200703-17), 1 atom(s) (app-admin/ulogd); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2007-0460
ubuntu medium CVE-2007-0460 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ulogd), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 2, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-0460

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-0460

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
suse suse_linux <= 10.1 cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse suse_linux 9.3 cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-0460

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