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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6008
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CVE-2006-6008

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22816
  Secunia Advisory: SA22853

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292
  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz


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