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CVE-2006-4655

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sco Unixware: 7.1.3
• Sun Solaris: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/21815
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21845
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21856
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21993
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1545
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016806
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102570-1
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-195.htm
• http://www.risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2006001.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445579/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19905
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3525

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