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CVE-2006-5156: Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator: Buffer overflow

CVE-2006-5156 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability 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.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator: 3.0; 3.0 sp2a; 3.5.0
  • Mcafee Protectionpilot: 1.1.1

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