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CVE-2002-1476

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CVE-2002-1476

Published: Sep 1, 2004

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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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References

7565
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5724
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netbsd-libc-setlocale-bo(10159)
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