CVE-2006-3084

Description

The (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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3225

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19427

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded

http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/

http://www.osvdb.org/27872

http://www.osvdb.org/27871

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/401660

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146

http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/23707

http://secunia.com/advisories/21613

http://secunia.com/advisories/21527

http://secunia.com/advisories/21467

http://secunia.com/advisories/21461

http://secunia.com/advisories/21439

http://secunia.com/advisories/21436

http://secunia.com/advisories/21402

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3