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CVE-2006-6418

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2006-12-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Hp Tru64

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References