CVE-2006-6008 - Alpha Puffs

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384454 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150292 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-ftpd/linux-ftpd_0.17-22.diff.gz http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml http://secunia.com/advisories/22816 http://secunia.com/advisories/22853