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

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

VMScore: 470

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

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) swpackage and (2) swmodify commands in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -S argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

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hp hp-ux 11.00
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hp hp-ux 11.4

/* HP-UX swpackage buffer overflow exploit * ======================================= * HP-UX 'swpackage' contains an exploitable stack overflow * in the handling of command line arguements Specifically the * problem occurs due to insufficent bounds checking in the "-S" * optional arguement 'swpackage' is installed setuid root by * default i ...

/* HP-UX swmodify buffer overflow exploit * ======================================= * HP-UX 'swmodify' contains an exploitable stack overflow * in the handling of command line arguements Specifically the * problem occurs due to insufficent bounds checking in the "-S" * optional arguement 'swmodify' is installed setuid root by * default in H ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://blogs.23.nu/prdelka/stories/13144/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20706 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20735 http://osvdb.org/33994 http://osvdb.org/33993 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5035 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2634 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2633 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2633/

CVE-2006-5557

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