{"cve":"CVE-2006-4262","nvd":{"published":"2006-08-23T10:04:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:28:44.503","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-119"],"references":["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"],"products":["cscope:cscope"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:42:44.451428143+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2006-4262","score":0.03953,"percentile":0.90427,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}