CVE-2006-6494
N/A
Published: December 13, 2006 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsSolarisSunos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=449Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102724-1VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4979VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30849VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2121Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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