CVE-2006-5466 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the showQueryPackage function in librpm in RPM Package Manager 4.4.8 when the LANG environment variable is set to ru_RU.UTF-8 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted RPM packages.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/22740 http://secunia.com/advisories/22745 http://secunia.com/advisories/22768 http://secunia.com/advisories/22854 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:200 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20906 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-378-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4350 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833