CVE-2006-6685

2006-12-2119:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

buffer overflow

chetcpasswd

denial of service

arbitrary code

remote address

cve-2006-6685

AI Score

7.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd 2.3.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long REMOTE_ADDR environment variable. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

References

secunia.com/advisories/22967