CVE-2006-5466

CVE-2006-5466, security advisory, suse linux, suse, security, cve

CVE-2006-5466

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

[Previous] [Index] [Next]

Upstream information

CVE-2006-5466 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the showQueryPackage function in librpm in RPM Package Manager 4.4.8, when the LANG environment variable is set to ru_RU.UTF-8, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted RPM packages.

---

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 217292 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 218983 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

---

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:15:08 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:34 2022