CVE-2006-6164 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: 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 Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30441 ST 1017253 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22993 OPENBSD http://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html#ldso http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ldso MISC http://www.matasano.com/log/592/finger-79tcp-mcdonald-dowd-and-schuh-challenge-part-2/ BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded BID 21188

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