Denial of Service Vulnerability in wu-ftpd 2.6.1 and 2.6.2

CVE-2005-0256 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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