CVE-2006-4655 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4655
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28820 SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102570-1 ST 1016806 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1545 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA21815 Secunia Advisory: SA21845 Secunia Advisory: SA21856 Secunia Advisory: SA21993 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1798 MISC http://www.risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2006001.txt CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-195.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/445579/100/0/threaded BID 19905

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