CVE-2006-0599 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0599
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Description: The (1) elog.c and (2) elogd.c components in elog before 2.5.7 r1558-4 generate different responses depending on whether or not a username is valid, which allows remote attackers to determine valid usernames.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24706 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18783 MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349528 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/0003-r1472-Do-not-distinguish-between-invalid-user-name-and-invalid-password.txt?bug=349528;msg=15;att=3 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-967 BID 16579

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