CVE-2006-4447

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4447
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-08-30 01:04:00 UTC
Updated2011-03-08 02:40:00 UTC
DescriptionX.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X.org Emu-linux-x87-xlibs 7.0_r1 All All All
Application X.org Emu-linux-x87-xlibs 7.0_r1 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.7.0 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8.1 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8.2 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.7.0 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8.1 All All All
Application X.org X11r6 6.8.2 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0.1 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0.2 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0.1 All All All
Application X.org X11r7 1.0.2 All All All
Application X.org Xdm 1.0.3 All All All
Application X.org Xdm 1.0.3 All All All
Application X.org Xf86dga 1.0.0 All All All
Application X.org Xf86dga 1.0.0 All All All
Application X.org Xinit 1.0.2_r5 All All All
Application X.org Xinit 1.0.2_r5 All All All
Application X.org Xload 1.0.0 All All All
Application X.org Xload 1.0.0 All All All
Application X.org Xorg-server 1.02_r5 All All All
Application X.org Xorg-server 1.02_r5 All All All
Application X.org Xterm 214 All All All
Application X.org Xterm 214 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo update for beast - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Advisory SA21693 - Mandriva update for xorg-x11 - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
X.Org X11 setuid Security Issues - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Beast Resource Limit Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- X.org and some X.org libraries: Local privilege escalations GENTOO security.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Multiple X.Org Products SetUID Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
X.Org security advisory: setuid return value check problems MLIST lists.freedesktop.org Patch
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Debian update for xfree86 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1193-1 xfree86 DEBIAN www.debian.org
BEAST/BSE "seteuid()" and "setreuid()" Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.1 MLIST mail.gnome.org
Gentoo Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#300368 CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
BEAST: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-09-12Mark J CoxNot Vulnerable. This issue does not exist in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. This issue not exploitable in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. A detailed analysis of this issue can be found in the Red Hat Bug Tracking System: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195555
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