CVE-2002-1476

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LC_ALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array, as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.

Affected products

Netbsd: 1.4, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.6-beta

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10159.php
http://www.osvdb.org/7565
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5724
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10159.php
http://www.osvdb.org/7565
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5724

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