VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-6494

CVSS score6.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-12-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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