fkie_cve-2005-0256
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2005-05-02 04:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| washington_university | wu-ftpd | 2.6.1 | |
| washington_university | wu-ftpd | 2.6.2 |
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|---|
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