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CVE-2006-0709

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0709 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Metamail 2.7-50, affecting Metamail Corporation's Metamail software. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted email messages with an excessively long boundary attribute. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:metamail_corporation:metamail:2.7.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0627 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-0709Important

security flaw

Feb 12, 2006

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/18796
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18987
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19000
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19130
secunia.com / advisories/19226
secunia.com / advisories/19304
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24702
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-995
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-16.xml
wwwnew.mandriva.com / security/advisories
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0217.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/16611
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0565