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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-08-23T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:06.603Z

Reserved: 2006-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4262

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-08-23T10:04:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:31:10.767

Link: CVE-2006-4262

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-08-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-4262 - Bugzilla