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CVE-2006-6165

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

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

• FreeBSD: 6.2-stable
• Netbsd: 2.0.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452371/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452428/100/0/threaded

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