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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-3083 Detail

Current Description

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21402 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21423 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21436 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21439 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21441 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21456 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21461 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21467 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21527 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21613 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21847 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22291 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664 CVE, MITRE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-211.htm CVE, MITRE
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146 CVE, MITRE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/580124 CVE, MITRE Patch  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:139 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_22_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/27869 CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/27870 CVE, MITRE
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0612.html CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19427 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3225 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9515 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-3083
NVD Published Date:
08/09/2006
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE