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CVE-2006-6418

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: 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 products

• HP Tru64: 4.0f-pk8, 4.0g-pk4, 5.1a-pk6

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22743
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017211
• http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-LIBPTHREAD-20060811.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21035
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4483
• http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00800193
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30178
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22743
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017211
• http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-LIBPTHREAD-20060811.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21035
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4483

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