National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2194

Overview

The winbind plugin in pppd for ppp 2.4.4 and earlier does not check the return code from the setuid function call, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail, such as exceeding PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes, which prevents the winbind NTLM authentication helper from dropping privileges.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)

Not vulnerable. The winbind plugin is not shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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External Source: BID

Name: 18849

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18849

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1106

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1106

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20996

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20996

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20987

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20987

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20967

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20967

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-310-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-310-1

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 26994

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/26994

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20963

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20963

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:119

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:119