Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6418

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-12-10 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:26:46
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
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.