CVE-2006-3901 — Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Tumbleweed Email Firewall (EMF) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email attachment with an LHA archive that contains a (1) file or (2) directory with a long LHA extended header, (3) an LHA archive in which the "temporary pathname" field for decompressed output is greater than 2 bytes, or (4) an LHA archive with a long filename

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Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Tumbleweed Email Firewall (EMF) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email attachment with an LHA archive that contains a (1) file or (2) directory with a long LHA extended header, (3) an LHA archive in which the "temporary pathname" field for decompressed output is greater than 2 bytes, or (4) an LHA archive with a long filename

Published Jul 27, 2006

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.61%

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Tumbleweed Email Firewall (EMF) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email attachment with an LHA archive that contains a (1) file or (2) directory with a long LHA extended header, (3) an LHA archive in which the "temporary pathname" field for decompressed output is greater than 2 bytes, or (4) an LHA archive with a long filename.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.61% 0.03610

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03610

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.61% (0.03610)	89.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.53% (0.03533)	87.72th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	5.42% (0.05421)	89.18th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	4.19% (0.04190)	80.87th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	5.42% (0.05421)	89.44th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	17.48% (0.17484)	96.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 23, 2023	13.90% (0.13904)	94.79th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 16, 2023	13.27% (0.13271)	94.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	11.62% (0.11619)	94.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	7.78% (0.07777)	93.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	7.78% (0.07777)	92.60th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	7.78% (0.07777)	81.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (7)

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=115378437918939&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/21194
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.hustlelabs.com/advisories/04072006_tweed.pdf
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/27495
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441497/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19146
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2970
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=115378437918939&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/21194		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.hustlelabs.com/advisories/04072006_tweed.pdf		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/27495		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441497/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19146		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2970		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 27, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jul 26, 2006

Link CVE-2006-3901

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-3901

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-3901