RPM Lets Remote Users Cause Arbitrary Code to Be Executed When Queried in Certain Locales
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1017160
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017160
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5466
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Nov 6 2006
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Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Red Hat Package Manager (rpm). A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create a specially crafted RPM package that, when queried by the target user with certain locales specified, will
trigger a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target
user.
The 'LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8' locale can trigger the flaw. The flaw is not triggered by the C and English locales.
Vladimir
Mosgalin reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can create an RPM package that, when queried by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
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Solution: A fix is available via CVS.
A patch is available at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=139715
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Vendor URL: www.redhat.com/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Boundary error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 06:44:48 -0500
Subject: RPM vulnerability
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CVE-2006-5466
Ubuntu wrote:
An error was found in the RPM library's handling of query reports. In
some locales, certain RPM packages would cause the library to crash. If
a user was tricked into querying a specially crafted RPM package, the
flaw could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges.
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