National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3083
Original release date:08/09/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#580124
Name: VU#580124
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0612
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-334-1
External Source: BID
Name: 19427
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060816 UPDATED: MITKRB5-SA-2006-001: multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060808 MITKRB-SA-2006-001: multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27870
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27869
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:022
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:020
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200608-15
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3225
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1146
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-211.htm
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016664
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200608-21
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22291
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21847
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21613
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21527
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21467
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21461
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21456
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21441
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21439
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21436
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21423
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21402
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:139
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:139