CVE-2006-5452: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in dtmail on HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F through 5.1B and HP-UX B.11.00 through B.11.23 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -a (aka attachment) argument.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.4 only; version 11.11 only; version 11.22 only; version 11.23 only
• HP TRU64: version 4.0f only; version 4.0g only; version 5.0a only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1a only; version 5.1af only; …

Published 2006-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.