CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4842
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-10-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.
Affected configurations
• netscape portable runtime api 4.6.1
• netscape portable runtime api 4.6.2
• sun solaris 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=418 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22348 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017050 securitytracker.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102658-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448691/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20471 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4016 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29489 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1819 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45433/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=418 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22348 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017050 securitytracker.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102658-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448691/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20471 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4016 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29489 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1819 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45433/ www.exploit-db.com