CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-3378
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
passwd command in shadow in Ubuntu 5.04 through 6.06 LTS, when called with the -f, -g, or -s flag, does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits.
Affected configurations
• ubuntu ubuntu linux 5.04
• ubuntu ubuntu linux 5.10
• ubuntu ubuntu linux 6.06 lts
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20950 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20966 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21480 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1150 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/26995 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18850 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-308-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20950 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20966 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21480 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1150 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/26995 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18850 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-308-1 www.ubuntu.com