CVE-2006-6684

HIGH 7.5CVE-2006-6684 · Published 21/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6684 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting chetcpasswd (pedro lineu orso).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chetcpasswd pedro_lineu_orso	`= 2.3.1≤ 2.3.3`	No fix yet

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/22967 · Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/30546 · Vendor Advisory

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