CVE-2006-4124: Lesstif

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

The libXm library in LessTif 0.95.0 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the DEBUG_FILE environment variable, which is used to create world-writable files when libXm is run from a setuid program.

Affected products

• Lesstif Lesstif: up to and including 0.95.0; version 0.93.94 only

Published 2006-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.