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High · 7.8 CVE-2006-6165 EUVD-2006-6148GHSA-9p96-p3x8-3838

ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local us…

Published Nov 29, 2006 · Updated Jan 17, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

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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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