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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-4643 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:23:40.015Z

Reserved: 2006-09-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4655

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-09-09T00:04:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-4655

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