CVE-2006-3083 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-3083 at MITRE

Description

The (1) krshd and (2) v4rcp applications in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, when running on Linux and AIX, and (b) Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges using attacks such as resource exhaustion.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 182351 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:020, published Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:022, published Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000
TID3277932, published Sa 3. MÃ¤r 10:24:24 CET 2018

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:22:06 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:42 2023