CVE-2006-0196

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) 0.4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a long value of the HOME environment variable, possibly because of a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Serial Line Sniffer: 0.4.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18497
http://shellcoders.com/sintigan/slsnif-ploit.pl
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421583/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24082
http://secunia.com/advisories/18497
http://shellcoders.com/sintigan/slsnif-ploit.pl
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421583/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24082

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