CVE-2006-2480
Format string vulnerability in Dia 0.94 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering errors or warnings, as demonstrated via
02 Description
Format string vulnerability in Dia 0.94 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering errors or warnings, as demonstrated via
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-05-19 21:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:51Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-05-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134Use of Externally-Controlled Format StringBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 99474fd609f2e06c758bd2d8b360f5e33cbfd8d664a7be686f928e69feb0ac92
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com18078http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18078
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0541http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0541.html
- secunia.com20513http://secunia.com/advisories/20513
- secunia.com20422http://secunia.com/advisories/20422
- secunia.com20199http://secunia.com/advisories/20199
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11224https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11224
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:012http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
- securitytracker.com1016203http://securitytracker.com/id?1016203
- kandangjamur.nethttp://kandangjamur.net/tutorial/dia.txt
- secunia.com20254http://secunia.com/advisories/20254
- www.osvdb.org25699http://www.osvdb.org/25699
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:093http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:093
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-1908http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1908
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342111
- secunia.com20339http://secunia.com/advisories/20339
- www.securityfocus.com20060506 DIA file name handling format stringhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/433313/30/0/threaded
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-286-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/286-1/
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200606-03http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-03.xml
- secunia.com20457http://secunia.com/advisories/20457
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dia Fixed in 0.95.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dia Fixed in 0.95.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dia Fixed in 0.95.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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