CVE-2006-6494: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in ld.so.1 in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the LANG environment variable that points to a locale file containing attacker-controlled format string specifiers.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2006-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.