Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in BSD-based FTP Servers

CVE-2001-0247 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflows in BSD-based FTP servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long pattern string containing a {} sequence, as seen in (1) g_opendir, (2) g_lstat, (3) g_stat, and (4) the glob0 buffer as used in the glob functions glob2 and glob3.

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