CVE-2006-5156

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 74.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request to /spipe/pkg/ with a long source header.

Affected products

McAfee,LLC McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO): 3.0, 3.0-sp2a, 3.5.0
McAfee Protectionpilot: 1.1.1

References

http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v3.5/EPO3506.txt
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/protectionpilot/v1.1.1/PRP1113.txt
http://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=8611438&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=2997768&stateId=0%200%202995803
http://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/365/8611438_f.SAL_Public.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/049803.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22222
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016970
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016971
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/842452
http://www.osvdb.org/29421
http://www.remote-exploit.org/advisories/mcafee-epo.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20288

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