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Summary
A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd 2.3.1/2.3.3. Impacted is the function main. This manipulation causes memory corruption.
This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-6684. There is no available exploit.
You should upgrade the affected component.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd 2.3.1/2.3.3. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function main. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
The weakness was presented 10/21/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at osvdb.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-6684 since 12/21/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.
Upgrading to version 2.4 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (30546†) and Secunia (SA22967†). See VDB-33974, VDB-33971, VDB-33970 and VDB-33968 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.
Product
Vendor
Name
Version
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: chetcpasswd 2.4
Timeline
10/21/2006 🔍11/20/2006 🔍
11/21/2006 🔍
12/21/2006 🔍
12/21/2006 🔍
03/12/2015 🔍
08/12/2018 🔍
Sources
Advisory: osvdb.org⛔Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2006-6684 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-6684
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-33973
Secunia: 22967 - chetcpasswd Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 30546 - chetcpasswd main() Function X-Forwarded-For HTTP Header Overflow
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Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 22:21Updated: 08/12/2018 07:54
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (55), 08/12/2018 07:54 (1)
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