CVE-2006-6940

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2006-6940 · Published 17/01/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6940 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting owa (owa).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.8%, higher than 92.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
owa owa	`= 1.1.3`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in the ParseHeader function in clsOWA.cls in POP3/SMTP to OWA (pop2owa) 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long header in an e-mail message.

References

sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch
sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php · Vendor Advisory
vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0160

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