CVE-2002-1476 (GCVE-0-2002-1476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-09-01 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 03:26
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LC_ALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array, as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.
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