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CVE-2006-6164

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published11/29/2006

Last Modified4/9/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

openbsd:openbsd

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22993(cve@mitre.org)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017253(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.matasano.com/log/592/finger-79tcp-mcdonald-dowd-and-schuh-challenge-part-2/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ldso(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html#ldso(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21188(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30441(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/22993(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017253(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.matasano.com/log/592/finger-79tcp-mcdonald-dowd-and-schuh-challenge-part-2/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ldso(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html#ldso(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21188(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30441(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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