CVE-2006-6494

Published Dec 13, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.6
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
2.7
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

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