CVE-2006-5973

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

2.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 84.9% 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

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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.

Published

2006-11-20 19:00Z19 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 20:12Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2006-11-20

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

No CWE assigned

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e13f104e550dac080f0065853fac1c7f32d4ada019244c2c1694a8d83b259faf

• dovecot.org[Dovecot-news] 20091119 1.0.rc15 releasedhttp://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-387-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• secunia.com23150http://secunia.com/advisories/23150third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:073http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• secunia.com23007http://secunia.com/advisories/23007third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• secunia.com23172http://secunia.com/advisories/23172third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comdovecot-indexcache-bo(30433)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30433vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
• www.securityfocus.com20061119 Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server: Off-by-one buffer overflowhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452081/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• dovecot.org[Dovecot-news] 20061119 Security hole #2: Off-by-one buffer overflow with mmap_disable=yeshttp://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• secunia.com23213http://secunia.com/advisories/23213third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• securitytracker.com1017288http://securitytracker.com/id?1017288vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.vupen.comADV-2006-4614http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4614vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
• www.securityfocus.com21183http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21183/infovdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-802x_refsource_CONFIRM