CVE-2006-5466 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5466
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1 ST 1017160 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22854 Secunia Advisory: SA22745 Secunia Advisory: SA22768 Secunia Advisory: SA22740 MISC MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml BID 20906

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