CVE-2006-0709

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0105.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-02-15 CVE Reserved
2006-02-15 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-08-07 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CAPEC

References (18)

URL	Tag	Source
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352482	X_refsource_confirm
http://secunia.com/advisories/19130	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19226	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19304	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015654	Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0565	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24702	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16611	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18987	2017-07-20
http://secunia.com/advisories/19000	2017-07-20
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0217.html	2017-07-20
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:047	2017-07-20

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18796	2017-07-20
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-995	2017-07-20
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-16.xml	2017-07-20
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html	2017-07-20
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-0709	2006-02-21
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618013	2006-02-21

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Metamail Corporation Search vendor "Metamail Corporation"		Metamail Search vendor "Metamail Corporation" for product "Metamail"				2.7.50 Search vendor "Metamail Corporation" for product "Metamail" and version "2.7.50"		-		Affected