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CVE-2006-6008

Date: October 3, 2022

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

http://secunia.com/advisories/22853
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6008
http://secunia.com/advisories/22816
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-6008

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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