suse · CVE-2006-4262

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:36:35 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:38:22 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2006-4262 severity moderate: SUSE including 4 source package names (cscope, cscope-15.6-95.22, cscope-15.9-1.9, cscope-15.9-160000.2.2), 17 product×package rows across 17 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (17 product lines)): Known Not Affected 14, Fixed 3.

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.

cvelogic Threat Intelligence