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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-6494

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a ..

MEDIUM 6.6EPSS 0.43%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the LANG environment variable that points to a locale file containing attacker-controlled format string specifiers.

CVSS 2.0
6.6 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
0.43% probability · 37th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
sun/solaris · sun/sunos
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.