FKIE_CVE-2006-6684

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-12-21 19:28 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:33
Severity
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22967Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/30546Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22967Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/30546Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pedro_lineu_orso chetcpasswd *
pedro_lineu_orso chetcpasswd 2.3.1
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