CVE-1999-0997

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Linux

First reported 25 years ago

1999-12-20 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:18:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.2

5.2

Red Hat Linux 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Linux 6.1

6.1

References

DSA-377

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