National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2172

Overview

Buffer overflow in Gene6 FTP Server 3.1.0 allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to (1) MKD or (2) XMKD, as demonstrated by the Infigo FTPStress Fuzzer.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 17810

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17810

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060503 Re: FTP Fuzzer

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/432839/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/tools

Hyperlink:http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/tools

External Source: XF

Name: gene6-ftp-mkd-xmkd-dos(26237)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26237

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 25238

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/25238

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1658

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1658

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19965

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19965