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CVE-2011-0418

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Entered Topic
2011-05-23 pureftpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-0418
Phase Assigned(20110111)

Description

The glob implementation in Pure-FTPd before 1.0.32, and in libc in NetBSD 5.1, does not properly expand expressions containing curly brackets, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted FTP STAT command.

References

Source Reference
SREASONRES 20110502 Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) GLOB_BRACE|GLOB_LIMIT memory exhaustion
CONFIRM http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.28
CONFIRM http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&f=h
CONFIRM http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704283
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2011:094
BID 47671
SREASON 8228
VUPEN ADV-2011-1273