CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4655

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-09-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-09-09
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

Buffer overflow in the Strcmp function in the XKEYBOARD extension in X Window System X11R6.4 and earlier, as used in SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and Sun Solaris 8 through 10, allows local users to gain privileges via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable value.

Affected configurations

• sco unixware 7.1.3 • sun solaris 8.0 • sun solaris 9.0 • sun solaris 10.0

References