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CVE-2006-4262

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4262 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in cscope versions 15.5 and earlier. These flaws can be triggered by user-assisted attackers providing overly long pathnames or command-line arguments, leading to a denial of service (crash) and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 5.1, this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, allowing for partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 15.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0388 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cscope-0:15.5-16.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cscope-0:15.5-10.RHEL4.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-4262Low

cscope: multiple buffer overflows

Aug 20, 2006

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/21601
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22239
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22515
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28545
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28546
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/forum.php
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/forum.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9661
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1186
osvdb.org / 28135
osvdb.org / 28136
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1101.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/19686
securityfocus.com / bid/19687
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3374
Vendor Advisory