National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2194
Original release date:07/05/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The winbind plugin in pppd for ppp 2.4.4 and earlier does not check the return code from the setuid function call, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail, such as exceeding PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes, which prevents the winbind NTLM authentication helper from dropping privileges.
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 (08/16/2006)
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Not vulnerable. The winbind plugin is not shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: BID
Name: 18849
Type: Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1106
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20996
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20987
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20967
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:119
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-310-1
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 26994
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20963
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:119
