FKIE_CVE-2006-6165

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-11-29 01:28 - Updated: 2026-04-23 00:35
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freebsd freebsd 6.2
netbsd netbsd 2.0.4
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  "lastModified": "2026-04-23T00:35:47.467",
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