gsd-2006-4842
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:19
Details
The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.
Aliases
Aliases
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"lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-17T21:39Z",
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