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CVE-2002-1476

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2003-04-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in setlocale in libc on NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6, and possibly other operating systems, when called with the LC_ALL category, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code via a user-controlled locale string that has more than 6 elements, which exceeds the boundaries of the new_categories category array, as exploitable through programs such as xterm and zsh.

Affected Platforms

Netbsd Netbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References