CVE-2006-6876

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the fetchsms function in the SMS handling module (libsms_getsms.c) in OpenSER 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SMS message, triggering memory corruption when the "beginning" buffer is copied to the third (pdu) argument.

Affected products

Openser: through 1.1.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0093.html
http://www.osvdb.org/33340
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455415/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21800
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31137
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0093.html
http://www.osvdb.org/33340
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455415/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21800
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31137

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