CVE-2006-6418

Publication date

2006-12-10 11:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the POSIX Threads library (libpthread) on HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8, 4.0G PK4, and 5.1A PK6 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long PTHREAD_CONFIG environment variable.