CVE-2006-5466

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Rpm Package Manager: 4.4.8
Ubuntu Linux: 6.06_lts, 6.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22740
http://secunia.com/advisories/22745
http://secunia.com/advisories/22768
http://secunia.com/advisories/22854
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833
http://secunia.com/advisories/22740

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