CVE-2006-6494

Severity

65%

Complexity

27%

Confidentiality

165%

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the LANG environment variable that points to a locale file containing attacker-controlled format string specifiers.

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the LANG environment variable that points to a locale file containing attacker-controlled format string specifiers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-12-13 01:28:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

References

20061212 Sun Microsystems Solaris ld.so Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Patch, Vendor Advisory

23317

1017376

102724

Patch

21564

ADV-2006-4979

solaris-ld-lang-directory-traversal(30849)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2121

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