PT-2006-1273 · Unknown · Serial Line Sniffer

Published 2006-01-13 · Updated 2018-10-19 · CVE-2006-0196

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) version 0.4.4

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges, possibly due to a buffer overflow, when a long value is set for the HOME environment variable.

Recommendations For version 0.4.4, consider restricting the length of the HOME environment variable to prevent potential exploitation until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-0196

Affected Products

Serial Line Sniffer

References · 6

• 🔥 http://shellcoders.com/sintigan/slsnif-ploit.pl · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0196 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0212 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24082 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18497 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/421583/100/0/threaded · Note