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CVE-2005-0256

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0256 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 shipped with wu-ftpd, however we were unable to reproduce this issue. Additionally, a code analysis showed that attempts to exploit this issue would be caught in the versions we shipped.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149720

Last Modified 2018-04-28T03:52:39+00:00

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