CVE-2006-3084

MIT Kerberos <1.5/Heimdal <0.7.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (25)

Core 25
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/401660
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21461
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/27872
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21436
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3225
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21527
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/23707
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21439
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21402
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21613
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/27871
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19427

Scores

EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 61.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (6)
heimdal/heimdal < 0.7.2
mit/kerberos_5 1.4
mit/kerberos_5 1.4.1
mit/kerberos_5 1.4.2
mit/kerberos_5 1.4.3
mit/kerberos_5 1.5
Published Aug 09, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026