Denial of Service Vulnerability in ProFTPD 1.2.1 and Possibly Other Versions

CVE-2001-1501 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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