CVE-2006-5466 (GCVE-0-2006-5466)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-06 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:48
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/22740 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22854 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_MISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/22745 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22768 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2006-11-04 00:00
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