CVE-2006-6008
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
ftpd in Linux Netkit (linux-ftpd) 0.17, and possibly other versions, does not check the return status of certain seteuid, setgid, and setuid calls, which might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges if these calls fail in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5778.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.1% (81th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5991)
- Published
- November 21, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5991 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- netkit / netkit
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454(Patch)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292(Patch)
- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22816(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22853(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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