CVE-2006-4005
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.7%EU EUVD
BomberClone 0.11.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via (1) a certain malformed PKGF_ackreq packet, which triggers a crash in the rscache_add() function in pkgcache.c; and (2) an error packet, which is intended to be received by clients and force client shutdown, but also triggers server shutdown.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 3.7% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3998)
- Published
- August 7, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3998 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bomberclone / bomberclone
- bomberclone / bomberclone
- bomberclone / bomberclone
- bomberclone / bomberclone
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://aluigi.org/poc/bcloneboom.zip(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21303(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21985
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1180
- http://www.osvdb.org/27647
- http://www.osvdb.org/27649
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19255(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3067
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28090
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28093
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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