CVE-2006-1542

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-1542
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-03-30 11:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionStack-based buffer overflow in Python 2.4.2 and earlier, running on Linux 2.6.12.5 under gcc 4.0.3 with libc 2.3.5, allows local users to cause a "stack overflow," and possibly gain privileges, by running a script from a current working directory that has a long name, related to the realpath function. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability. However, the fact that it appears in a programming language interpreter could mean that some applications are affected, although attack scenarios might be limited because the attacker might already need to cross privilege boundaries to cause an exploitable program to be placed in a directory with a long name; or, depending on the method that Python uses to determine the current working directory, setuid applications might be affected.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.7 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS: 0.002060000 probability, percentile 0.427250000 (date 2026-04-19)

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Python All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Python <= 2.4.2 realpath() Local Stack Overflow Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Network Satellite Server Update for Solaris Client - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
SecPoint Cyber Security Vulnerability Scanning UTM Firewall WiFi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gotfault.net Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187900 The 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: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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