CVE-2006-4262 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/21601 http://secunia.com/advisories/22239 http://secunia.com/advisories/22515 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186 http://www.osvdb.org/28135 http://www.osvdb.org/28136 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19686 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19687 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3374 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28545 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28546 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9661