CVE-2002-1476

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LC_ALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array, as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LC_ALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array, as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

NetBSD

First reported 21 years ago

2003-04-22 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:30:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.4

1.4

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

NetBSD 1.5.1

1.5.1

NetBSD 1.5.2

1.5.2

NetBSD 1.5.3

1.5.3

NetBSD 1.6 Beta

1.6

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