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.
References
Information
Published : 2006-10-11 17:07
Updated : 2018-10-17 14:39
NVD link : CVE-2006-4842
Mitre link : CVE-2006-4842
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CWE
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
Products Affected
netscape
- portable_runtime_api
sun
- solaris