CVE-2006-4842 - Ubiquitarian Jimfish

Description

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.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=418 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102658-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20471 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017050 http://secunia.com/advisories/22348 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4016 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29489 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1819 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45433/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448691/100/0/threaded