CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6008

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

ftpd in Linux Netkit (linux-ftpd) 0.17, and possibly other versions, does not check the return status of certain seteuid, setgid, and setuid calls, which might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges if these calls fail in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5778.

Affected configurations

• netkit netkit 0.17

References