{"id":"CVE-2006-7252","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-7252","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:24.898Z","title":"Integer overflow in the calloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which…","description":"Integer overflow in the calloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which triggers a memory allocation of one byte.","published":"2012-07-25T19:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:34:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-189"],"affected":["freebsd/freebsd","netbsd/netbsd"],"epss":{"score":0.01103,"percentile":0.65512,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=161263","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=161263","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7252","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}