Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6008 - Remote Security vulnerability in Netkit 0.17
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
References
- 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