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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2005-3467

Medium
5/10

Summary

Serv-U FTP Server before 6.1.0.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) malformed packets and possibly other unspecified issues with unknown impact and attack vectors including (2) use of "~" in a pathname, and (3) memory consumption of the daemon. NOTE: it is not clear whether items (2) and above are vulnerabilities.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published