CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5556

Published: Oct 27, 2006 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
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
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Buffer overflow in the localtime_r function, and certain other functions, in libc in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TZ environment variable.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Hp-uxHp11.00 (including)11.00 (including)
Hp-uxHp11.4 (including)11.4 (including)
Hp-uxHp11.11 (including)11.11 (including)

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