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
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2006-11-29T01:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:34.506Z
Reserved: 2006-11-28T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-6165
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-11-29T01:28:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:22:03.003
Link: CVE-2006-6165
Redhat
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