CVE-2006-2458

mediumpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.090 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

9.00% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the asf_read_header function in the ASF plugin (plugins/asfextractor.c), and (2) the parse_trak_atom function in the QT plugin (plugins/qtextractor.c).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.6–4

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 4.9 · impact 4.9

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.03.6lowAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-122USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-1801libextractor 0.5.13 - Multiple Heap Overflows (PoC)functional · exploit_db

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Gentoo Foundation Inc. Gentoo Linux≤ 2006.0fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 3.1fstec_bduRU
libextractor libextractor= 0.5.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:libextractor:libextractor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI extractorall versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/extractor

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-f836-7jqw-3684Libextractor multiple heap-based buffer overflows2022-05-01ghsa · osvUS
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the asf_read_header function in the ASF plugin (plugins/asfextractor.c), and (2) the parse_trak_atom function in the QT plugin (plugins/qtextractor.c).
PYSEC-2006-42006-05-18vendor · osvUS
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Libextractor 0.5.13 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the asf_read_header function in the ASF plugin (plugins/asfextractor.c), and (2) the parse_trak_atom function in the QT plugin (plugins/qtextractor.c).

also known as (12)

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sources

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enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-05-18modified 2026-06-16

references (30)

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