THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2971
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2971

Overkill vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the recv_packet function in 0verkill 0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a UDP packet with fewer than 12 bytes, which results in a long length value to the crc32 function.
Affected vendor
Overkill
Affected product
Overkill
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2006-06-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2971

  • Confirm whether Overkill Overkill is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2971.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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