CVE-2005-0256
Published May 2, 2005
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The wu_fnmatch function in wu_fnmatch.c in wu-ftpd 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion by recursion) via a glob pattern with a large number of * (wildcard) characters, as demonstrated using the dir command.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-119
Vendor comments
- Red HatNot vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 shipped with wu-ftpd, however we were unable to reproduce this issue. Additionally, a code analysis showed that attempts to exploit this issue would be caught in the versions we shipped. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149720
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:washington_university:wu-ftpd:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7196CF2D-8CCC-454A-A2C1-6408A9D636C5"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:washington_university:wu-ftpd:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D851CEBD-4FE5-46D9-99BD-CA3F3235B2E6"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]