CVE-2006-4024 — The FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow

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The FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow

Published Aug 9, 2006

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 5.10%

Description

The FESTAHES_Load function in pce/hes.c in Festalon 0.5.0 through 0.5.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative LoadAddr value in a HES file, which is used as an offset in a memcpy operation and leads to a buffer underflow.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

5.10% 0.05101

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.05101

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 (13 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	5.10% (0.05101)	92.11th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	4.88% (0.04878)	90.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	5.38% (0.05379)	89.13th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	8.03% (0.08029)	86.58th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	5.18% (0.05179)	89.17th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.00% (0.01000)	84.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 14, 2024	1.00% (0.01000)	83.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 20, 2024	0.90% (0.00902)	82.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 28, 2023	0.90% (0.00902)	80.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.92% (0.00923)	80.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.08% (0.04081)	85.99th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.08% (0.04081)	84.58th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.08% (0.04081)	68.03th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/festahc-adv.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21367
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19402
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3177
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/festahc-adv.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21367		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19402		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3177		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 9, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 8, 2006

Link CVE-2006-4024

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-4024

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-4024