CVE-2006-5557: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) swpackage and (2) swmodify commands in HP-UX B.11.11 and possibly other versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long -S argument. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2006-2574, but the details relating to CVE-2006-2574 are too vague to be certain.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.4 only; version 11.11 only

Published 2006-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.