CVE-2006-5656

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-5656 · Published 03/11/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5656 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting vilistextum (vilistextum).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 75.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vilistextum vilistextum	`= 2.6.6= 2.6.7`	No fix yet

Description

Memory leak in the push_align function in src/util.c in Vilistextum before 2.6.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors related to the tmp_align variable. NOTE: it is not clear whether this is a vulnerability, due to the functionality of the product.

References

sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php
securityfocus.com/bid/20813 · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4253 · Vendor Advisory

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