CVE-2006-6494

MediumCVSS 6.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.6/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Dec 13, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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