CVE-2006-4447 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain elevated privileges by causing setuid calls to fail in X.Org components due to unchecked return values.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-4447?
CVE-2006-4447 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Aug 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing those calls to fail, such as by exceeding a ulimit.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4447?
It affects 9 products.
Products include X.org Emu-Linux-X87-Xlibs, X.org X11r6, X.org X11r7, X.org Xdm, X.org Xf86dga, X.org Xinit and 3 more.
How do I fix CVE-2006-4447?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2006-4447 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4447 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4447, GHSA-3cp9-g7w3-6jqq.