CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4124
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The libXm library in LessTif 0.95.0 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the DEBUG_FILE environment variable, which is used to create world-writable files when libXm is run from a setuid program.
Affected configurations
• lesstif lesstif (<= 0.95.0)
• lesstif lesstif 0.93.94
References
- http://karol.wiesek.pl/files/lesstif-advisory.pdf Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21428 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19430 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3230 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28298 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2144 www.exploit-db.com
- http://karol.wiesek.pl/files/lesstif-advisory.pdf Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21428 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19430 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3230 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28298 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2144 www.exploit-db.com