CVE-2006-4789 — Buffer overflow in Open Movie Editor 0.0.20060901 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long project name in an open_movie_editor_project XML tag

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Buffer overflow in Open Movie Editor 0.0.20060901 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long project name in an open_movie_editor_project XML tag

Published Sep 14, 2006

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.97%

Description

Buffer overflow in Open Movie Editor 0.0.20060901 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long project name in an open_movie_editor_project XML tag.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.97% 0.00973

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

EPSS probability 0.00973

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 (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.97% (0.00973)	60.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.95% (0.00948)	56.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00130)	29.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	0.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	0.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.90% (0.01899)	77.41th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 5, 2023	1.90% (0.01899)	77.40th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.90% (0.01899)	75.40th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.90% (0.01899)	54.56th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19938
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28854
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2338
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19938		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28854		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2338		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 14, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Sep 13, 2006

Link CVE-2006-4789

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-4789

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-4789