CVE-2006-5466

EPSS 1.7%

Published: 11/6/2006Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5466

Description

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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/rpmfrom 0, < 4.4.1-11

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5466