CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-0256
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• washington university wu-ftpd 2.6.1
• washington university wu-ftpd 2.6.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.63/SCOSA-2005.63.txt ftp.sco.com
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00637342 itrc.hp.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14411 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18210 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19561 Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101699-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57795-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=207&type=vulnerabilities Exploit
- http://www.osvdb.org/14203 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0588 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1271 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1265 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1333 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1762 oval.cisecurity.org
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.63/SCOSA-2005.63.txt ftp.sco.com
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00637342 itrc.hp.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14411 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18210 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19561 Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101699-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57795-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=207&type=vulnerabilities Exploit
- http://www.osvdb.org/14203 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0588 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1271 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1265 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1333 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1762 oval.cisecurity.org