Vulnerability CVE-2006-5466
Published: 2006-11-06   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.4/10
6.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Ubuntu -> Ubuntu linux 
RPM -> Package manager 

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