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CVE-2005-3346

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LD_PRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv function call.

Affected products

• Osh: 1.7.14

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338312
• http://pulltheplug.org/users/core/files/x_osh3.sh
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17527
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17967
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-918
• http://www.osvdb.org/20720
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15370
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2378
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23091
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338312
• http://pulltheplug.org/users/core/files/x_osh3.sh
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17527

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