CVE-2006-4842
Publication date 12 October 2006
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
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.