CVE-2006-6008 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

ftpd in Linux Netkit (linux-ftpd) 0.17, and possibly other versions, does not check the return status of certain seteuid, setgid, and setuid calls, which might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges if these calls fail in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5778.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.014.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
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Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:netkit:netkit:0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-5991	ftpd in Linux Netkit (linux-ftpd) 0.17, and possibly other versions, does not check the return status of certain seteuid, setgid, and setuid calls, which might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges if these calls fail in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5778.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz
http://secunia.com/advisories/22816
http://secunia.com/advisories/22853
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-21T23:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:34:27.443Z

Reserved: 2006-11-21T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2006-6008

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-21T23:07:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6008

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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