CVE-2006-6165

** DISPUTED ** 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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

17 Jan 2025, 14:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : 7.2
v3 : unknown
v2 : 7.2
v3 : 7.8

21 Nov 2024, 00:22

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded - () http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded -
References () http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded - () http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded -

Information

Published : 2006-11-29 01:28

Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30


NVD link : CVE-2006-6165

Mitre link : CVE-2006-6165

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-6165


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Products Affected

freebsd

  • freebsd

netbsd

  • netbsd