CVE-2002-1476 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6 and possibly other operating systems when called with the LC_ALL category allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.

Reference

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-012.txt.asc http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10159.php http://www.osvdb.org/7565 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5724