CVE-2006-5466

Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.4)—

Heap-based buffer overflow in the showQueryPackage function in librpm in RPM Package Manager 4.4.8, when the LANG environment variable is set to ru_RU.UTF-8, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted RPM packages.

CVSS

Versión: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Puntuación base: 5.4

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.65%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 89
Fecha de la puntuación: 3/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

Tecnologías afectadas (2)

RPM — Package Manager Ubuntu — Ubuntu Linux

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Referencias

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      "comment": "Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:\nhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213515\n\nThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:\nhttp://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/\n\nRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.",
      "lastModified": "2007-03-14T00:00:00",
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