CVE-2006-6418

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
HP
Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 December 2006

Summary

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.

References

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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