CVE-2006-4005

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Bomberclone: 0.11.3, 0.11.4, 0.11.5, 0.11.6

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/bcloneboom.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/21303
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
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3067
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28090
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28093
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/bcloneboom-adv.txt

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