PT-2006-1657 · Elog · Elog

Florian Weimer · Published 2006-02-13 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-0599

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions elog versions prior to 2.5.7 r1558-4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to determine valid usernames by exploiting a difference in responses from the elog.c and elogd.c components, depending on whether a username is valid or not.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.5.7 r1558-4, update to version 2.5.7 r1558-4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-0599

DSA-967-1

Affected Products

Elog

References · 7

• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-967 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0599 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18783 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349528 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/0003-r1472-Do-not-distinguish-between-invalid-user-name-and-invalid-password.txt?bug=349528%3Bmsg=15%3Batt=3 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16579 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24706 · Note