Published: 27/10/2006 Updated: 19/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 465

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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/* HP-UX libc timezone environment overflow exploit * ================================================ * HP-UX libc contains an exploitable stack overflow * in the handling of "TZ" environment variable The * problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking * in the localtime_r() and related functions Any suid * or sgid program which uses ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://blogs.23.nu/prdelka/stories/13144/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20718 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29777 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2636 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2636/

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