CVE-2006-5558

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerability in the swask command in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -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.

Format string vulnerability in the swask command in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -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 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

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

20726

Exploit, Patch

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5804

2635

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