CVE-2006-6165 (GCVE-0-2006-6165)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-29 01:00
Modified
2025-01-17 14:08
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing certain environment variables to loading processes. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, stating that it is the responsibility of the application to properly sanitize the environment
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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