CVE-2006-5556

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in the localtime_r function, and certain other functions, in libc in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TZ environment variable.

Buffer overflow in the localtime_r function, and certain other functions, in libc in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TZ environment variable.

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

HP-UX

First reported 18 years ago

2006-10-27 16:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-19 01:29:00

Affected Software

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

HP HP-UX 11.4

11.4

HP-UX 11.11

11.11

References

http://blogs.23.nu/prdelka/stories/13144/

Exploit

20718

Exploit, Patch

hpux-timezone-bo(29777)

2636

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