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CVE-2006-6008

Published: Nov 21, 2006

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454

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http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292

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