Vulnerability in Point-To-Point Protocol Project
CVE-2006-2194
The winbind plugin in pppd for ppp 2.4.4 and earlier does not check the return code from the setuid function call, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail, such as exceeding PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes, which prevents the winbind NTLM authentication helper from dropping privileges.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (33.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 33.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/26994 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1106 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20963 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20987 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20996 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20967 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18849 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-310-1 (vendor-advisory)