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title: "CVE-2006-1283\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2006-1283

Publication date 23 March 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD
4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin
function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local
users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root
privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel
group or sshd.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| opie | 7.04 feisty | Not affected |
| 6.10 edgy | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1283)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1283)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2006-1283)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1283)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1283>