CVE-2006-4125

Dconnect Daemon vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

7.8%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in main.c in DConnect Daemon 0.7.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large nickname, which is not properly handled by the listen_thread_udp function.

Affected vendor

Dconnect

Affected product

Dconnect Daemon

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-08-14

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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