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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6682
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-6682

Description:
Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd 2.3.3 provides a different error message when a request with a valid username fails, compared to a request with an invalid username, which allows remote attackers to determine valid usernames on the system.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30454

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22967

OSVDB
  30545

MISC
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454

BUGTRAQ
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=116371297325564&w=2

BID
  21102


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