National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3084

Overview

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.

Impact

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#401660

Name: VU#401660

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3225

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-334-1

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

External Source: BID

Name: 19427

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

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060816 UPDATED: MITKRB5-SA-2006-001: multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

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

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060808 MITKRB-SA-2006-001: multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 27872

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/27872

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 27871

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/27871

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2006:020

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

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200608-15

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

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1146

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016664

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200608-21

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23707

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23707

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21613

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21613

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21527

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21527

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21467

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21467

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21461

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21461

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21439

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21439

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21436

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21436

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21402

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21402

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2007-034

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt