CVE-2006-6684

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Pedro Lineu Orso Chetcpasswd: through 2.3.3; 2.3.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454
http://secunia.com/advisories/22967
http://www.osvdb.org/30546
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394454
http://secunia.com/advisories/22967
http://www.osvdb.org/30546

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