National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2006-4447)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4447

Original release date:08/30/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.2 (HIGH) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

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

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/12/2006): Not Vulnerable. This issue does not exist in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. This issue not exploitable in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. A detailed analysis of this issue can be found in the Red Hat Bug Tracking System: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195555

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#300368

Name: VU#300368

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/300368

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200608-25

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-25.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21650

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21650

External Source: MLIST