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ppp: privilege escalation

Package(s):ppp CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2194
Created:July 6, 2006 Updated:August 14, 2006
Description: Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin of pppd does not check the result of the setuid() call. On systems that configure PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes and enable the winbind plugin, a local attacker could exploit this to execute the winbind NTLM authentication helper as root. Depending on the local winbind configuration, this could potentially lead to privilege escalation.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1150-1 2006-08-12
Mandriva MDKA-2006:119 2006-07-10
Debian DSA-1106-1 2006-07-10
Ubuntu USN-310-1 2006-07-05
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