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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4262
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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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28546
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28545

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22239
  Secunia Advisory: SA22515
  Secunia Advisory: SA21601

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html

OSVDB
  28136
  28135

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186

CONFIRM
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500

BID
  19687
  19686


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