CVE-2006-6418 Information

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.

Reference

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