CVE-2006-0196 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) 0.4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a long value of the HOME environment variable, possibly because of a buffer overflow.

Published: 2006-01-13

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:serial_line_sniffer:serial_line_sniffer:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-0204	Unspecified vulnerability in Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) 0.4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a long value of the HOME environment variable, possibly because of a buffer overflow.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00078.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/18497
http://shellcoders.com/sintigan/slsnif-ploit.pl
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/421583/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24082

History

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Subscriptions

Serial Line Sniffer Serial Line Sniffer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-01-13T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:25:34.143Z

Reserved: 2006-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0196

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-01-13T23:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-0196

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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