CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6164

Published: Nov 29, 2006 | Modified: Oct 17, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The _dl_unsetenv function in loader.c in the ELF ld.so in OpenBSD 3.9 and 4.0 does not properly remove duplicate environment variables, which allows local users to pass dangerous variables such as LD_PRELOAD to loading processes, which might be leveraged to gain privileges.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 3.9 (including) 3.9 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)

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