Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6685

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-12-21 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 20:23:02
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.