CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6495

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via large precision padding values in a format string specifier in the format parameter of the doprf function. NOTE: this issue normally does not cross privilege boundaries, except in cases of external introduction of malicious message files, or if it is leveraged with other vulnerabilities such as CVE-2006-6494.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 9.0 • sun solaris 10.0 • sun sunos 5.8

References