CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2093

2.6 LOW Published 2006-04-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-04-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.

Affected configurations

• nessus nessus (<= 2.2.7) • nessus nessus (<= 3.0.2) • nessus nessus 2.2.0 • nessus nessus 2.2.0 rc1 • nessus nessus 2.2.1 • nessus nessus 2.2.2 • nessus nessus 2.2.3 • nessus nessus 2.2.5 • nessus nessus 2.2.6

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

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