Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6164

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-11-29 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:19:34
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.