ID CVE-1999-1290 Type cve Reporter cve@mitre.org Modified 2017-10-10T01:29:00
Description
Buffer overflow in nftp FTP client version 1.40 allows remote malicious FTP servers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long response string.
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