cve-2006-5466
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-06 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:48
Severity ?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the showQueryPackage function in librpm in RPM Package Manager 4.4.8, when the LANG environment variable is set to ru_RU.UTF-8, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted RPM packages.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22740Exploit, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22745Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22768
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22854
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017160
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22740Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22745Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22768
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22854
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833Exploit
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