CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5557

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-10-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-27
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

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) swpackage and (2) swmodify commands in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -S argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

Affected configurations

• hp hp-ux 11.00 • hp hp-ux 11.4 • hp hp-ux 11.11

References