CVE-2006-4655 (GCVE-0-2006-4655)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Buffer overflow in the Strcmp function in the XKEYBOARD extension in X Window System X11R6.4 and earlier, as used in SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and Sun Solaris 8 through 10, allows local users to gain privileges via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable value.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
15 references
Date Public
2006-09-07 00:00
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