CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6418
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• hp tru64 4.0f
• hp tru64 4.0g
• hp tru64 5.1a
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22743 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017211 securitytracker.com
- http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-LIBPTHREAD-20060811.txt www.netragard.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21035 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4483 Vendor Advisory
- http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00800193 www2.itrc.hp.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30178 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22743 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017211 securitytracker.com
- http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-LIBPTHREAD-20060811.txt www.netragard.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21035 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4483 Vendor Advisory
- http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00800193 www2.itrc.hp.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30178 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com