CVE-2006-6474

medium Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 77% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: December 14, 2006 (7090 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan for Linux 4510e and earlier includes the current working directory in the DT_RPATH environment variable, which allows local users to load arbitrary ELF DSO libraries and execute arbitrary code by installing malicious libraries in that directory.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

mcafee virusscan

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 security.gentoo.org 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com