ProFTPD Telnet IAC buffer overflow

Added: 01/21/2011 CVE: CVE-2010-4221 BID: 44562 OSVDB: 68985 Background ProFTPD is free FTP Server software for Unix and Linux platforms. Problem A buffer overflow vulnerability in ProFTPD allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a TELNETIAC escape sequence to the FTP...

proftpd -- remote code execution vulnerability

Tippingpoint reports: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of ProFTPD. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the proftpd server component which listens by default on TCP port 21. When readin...