CVE-2006-6008 (GCVE-0-2006-6008)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:34
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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.
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http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20061… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ft… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/22816 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22853 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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