CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4655

Published: Sep 09, 2006 | Modified: Oct 17, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Buffer overflow in the Strcmp function in the XKEYBOARD extension in X Window System X11R6.4 and earlier, as used in SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and Sun Solaris 8 through 10, allows local users to gain privileges via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Unixware Sco 7.1.3 (including) 7.1.3 (including)
Solaris Sun 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Solaris Sun 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Solaris Sun 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)

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