Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2000:014)

Wu-ftpd is vulnerable to a very serious remote attack in the SITE EXEC implementation. Because of user input going directly into a format string for a printf function, it is possible to overwrite important data, such as a return address, on the stack. When this is accomplished, the function can...

CVE-2000-0574

Affected software: OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd, and Opieftpd. The issue is that untrusted format strings are not properly cleansed in setproctitle, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. The connected Nessus document notes an attack scenario w...

CVE-2000-0574: Undefined Security Weakness

FTP servers such as OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd and Opieftpd do not properly cleanse untrusted format strings that are used in the setproctitle function sometimes called by setproctitle, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands...