CVE-2006-4438

Dr.Web vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

10.2%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in SpIDer for Dr.Web Scanner for Linux 4.33, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an LHA archive with an extended header that contains a long directory name.

Affected vendor

Doctor Web Ltd

Affected product

Dr.Web

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-09-20

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.

Its EPSS score of 10.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-4438.
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