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Reachable Assertion

CVE-2006-6767

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

oftpd before 0.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon abort) via a (1) LPRT or (2) LPASV command with an unsupported address family, which triggers an assertion failure.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published