VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-5556

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.33%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-10-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the localtime_r function, and certain other functions, in libc in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TZ environment variable.

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