CVE-2006-6685: Pedro Lineu Orso Chetcpasswd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Pedro Lineu Orso chetcpasswd 2.3.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long REMOTE_ADDR environment variable. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• Pedro Lineu Orso Chetcpasswd: version 2.3.3 only

Published 2006-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.