Security Advisory

CVE-2006-5556

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-27 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:55:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the localtime_r function, and certain other functions, in libc in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long TZ environment variable.