High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2006· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2006-6165
CVE-2006-6165
Description
ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing certain environment variables to loading processes. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, stating that it is the responsibility of the application to properly sanitize the environment
Affected products
2Patches
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