Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2006-5557. PoCs published by prdelka.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in HP-UX's 'swpackage' utility via the '-S' command-line argument. It leverages a crafted environment variable to execute shellcode, achieving local privilege escalation to root.
Description
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.
Exploits (2)
This exploit targets a buffer overflow vulnerability in HP-UX's 'swpackage' utility via the '-S' command-line argument. It leverages a crafted environment variable to execute shellcode, achieving local privilege escalation to root.
This exploit targets a buffer overflow in HP-UX's 'swmodify' via the '-S' argument, allowing local privilege escalation to root. It uses a crafted environment variable to inject shellcode and execute '/bin/sh'.