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CVE-2006-6418

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.53%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2006-12-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2006-6418
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.53%

Original NVD 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.