CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5466
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
Affected configurations
• rpm package manager 4.4.8
• ubuntu ubuntu linux 6.06 lts
• ubuntu ubuntu linux 6.10
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22740 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22745 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22768 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22854 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22740 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22745 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22768 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22854 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160 securitytracker.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833 Exploit