CVE-2002-1476: Netbsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6 only

Published 2003-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.