CVE-2006-4262: Cscope

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cscope Cscope: up to and including 15.5

Published 2006-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.