CVE-2006-3084

Summary

CVECVE-2006-3084
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-08-09 10:04:00 UTC
Updated2020-01-21 15:45:00 UTC
DescriptionThe (1) ftpd and (2) ksu programs in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, and (b) Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges. NOTE: as of 20060808, it is not known whether an exploitable attack scenario exists for these issues.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Heimdal Heimdal All All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
404 Not Found FEDORA fedoranews.org
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Kerberos Application Flaws in Evaluating setuid/seteuid Calls May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges SECTRACK securitytracker.com
27872 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities GENTOO www.gentoo.org
2006-08-08: multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities CONFIRM www.pdc.kth.se
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Ubuntu update for krb5 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
usn/usn-334-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Secunia - Advisories - Heimdal setuid Security Issue SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for heimdal - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for krb5 SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Fedora Core 5 update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt CONFIRM web.mit.edu
MIT Kerberos 5 Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt CONFIRM ftp.pdc.kth.se
Gentoo update for mit-krb5 - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#401660 CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Kerberos V5 setuid Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1146-1 krb5 DEBIAN www.debian.org
27871 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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