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CVE-2006-4842

CVE-2006-4842

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 7.6%
from disclosure to weapon1 days
Published on NVDOct 12
1st PoC+1d
metasploitOct 11
exploitation probability
7.6%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
7 public exploit(s)
The Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API 4.6.1 and 4.6.2, as used in Sun Solaris 10, trusts user-specified environment variables for specifying log files even when running from setuid programs, which allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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