CVE-2006-5557

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) swpackage and (2) swmodify commands in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -S argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) swpackage and (2) swmodify commands in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -S argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

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

33993

33994

20706

Exploit, Patch

20735

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5035

2633

2634

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