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CVE-2006-4655

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/09/2006
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the Strcmp function in the XKEYBOARD extension in X Window System X11R6.4 and earlier, as used in SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and Sun Solaris 8 through 10, allows local users to gain privileges via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable value.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*

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