ppp: privilege escalation [LWN.net]

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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