CVE-2006-4655 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/21815 http://secunia.com/advisories/21845 http://secunia.com/advisories/21856 http://secunia.com/advisories/21993 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1545 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016806 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102570-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-195.htm http://www.risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2006001.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445579/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19905 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3525 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3529 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28820 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1798