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Status published
Medium
CVE-2006-6494
Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9,...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2121
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23317
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30849
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=449
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102724-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21564
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017376
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4979
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
solaris, sunos
Vulnerable Versions:
9.0, 10.0, 5.8
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 13th, 2006
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.