cve/2006/CVE-2006-6418.md

### [CVE-2006-6418](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6418)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-LIBPTHREAD-20060811.txt

#### Github
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