Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2006-7094

Description

ftpd, as used by Gentoo and Debian Linux, sets the gid to the effective uid instead of the effective group id before executing /bin/ls, which allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories with the privileges of gid 0 and possibly enable additional attack vectors.

Affected products

Ftpd/Ftpd
cpe:2.3:a:ftpd:ftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cginvdPatch
bugs.debian.org/384454nvd
osvdb.org/34242nvd
packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-ftpd/news/20061125T181702Z.htmlnvd
securityreason.com/securityalert/2330nvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460742/100/0/threadednvd

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