CVE-2006-0196: Serial Line Sniffer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Serial line sniffer (aka slsnif) 0.4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a long value of the HOME environment variable, possibly because of a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Serial Line Sniffer Serial Line Sniffer: version 0.4.4 only

Published 2006-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.