CVE-2006-4024
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 5.1%EU EUVD
The FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.1% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4017)
- Published
- August 9, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4017 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- festalon / festalon
- festalon / festalon
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/festahc-adv.txt(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21367(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19402
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3177
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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