First published: Mon Dec 31 2001(Updated: )
The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and other special characters, as demonstrated using an ls command with multiple (1) "*/..", (2) "*/.*", or (3) ".*./*?/" sequences in the argument.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Proftpd Project Proftpd | =1.2.1 |
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