CVE-2006-4655
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the Strcmp function in the XKEYBOARD extension in X Window System X11R6.4 and earlier, as used in SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and Sun Solaris 8 through 10, allows local users to gain privileges via a long _XKB_CHARSET environment variable value.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 0.9% (60th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4643)
- Published
- September 9, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4643 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sco / unixware
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21815
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21856
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21993
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1545
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016806
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102570-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-195.htm
- http://www.risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2006001.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445579/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19905
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3525
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3529
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28820
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1798
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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