CVE-2006-6494

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2006-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the LANG environment variable that points to a locale file containing attacker-controlled format string specifiers.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 9.0, 10.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=449
http://secunia.com/advisories/23317
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017376
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102724-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21564
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4979
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30849
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2121
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=449
http://secunia.com/advisories/23317
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017376
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102724-1

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