Buffer Overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6 and other operating systems

CVE-2002-1476 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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