CVE-2006-6165 Privilege escalation in n/a

High 7.8 Published 29 Nov 2006 Updated 17 Jan 2025

Local attackers can gain privileges by passing harmful environment variables to processes loaded by the BSD dynamic linker.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2006-6165?

CVE-2006-6165 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 29 Nov 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6165?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2006-6165?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6165 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-6165 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6165 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-9p96-p3x8-3838.