First published: Thu May 24 2001(Updated: )
FTP server in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to cause a core dump in the root directory, possibly with world-readable permissions, by providing a valid username with an invalid password followed by a CWD ~ command, which could release sensitive information such as shadowed passwords, or fill the disk partition.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Sun Solaris | =2.6 | |
Sun SunOS | <=5.9 |
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