CVE-2006-4842

Published: 12 October 2006

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Not vulnerable
	edgy	Not vulnerable
	feisty	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4842
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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