CVE-2006-6164
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-29 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:19
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22993
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017253Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.matasano.com/log/592/finger-79tcp-mcdonald-dowd-and-schuh-challenge-part-2/
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ldsoPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html#ldsoPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21188
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30441
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22993
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1017253Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.matasano.com/log/592/finger-79tcp-mcdonald-dowd-and-schuh-challenge-part-2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ldsoPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html#ldsoPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21188
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30441
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