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.

CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

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CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

Information

Published : 2006-11-28 17:28

Updated : 2018-10-17 14:47

NVD link : CVE-2006-6165

Mitre link : CVE-2006-6165

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Products Affected

freebsd

freebsd

netbsd

netbsd

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