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CVE-2001-0247: Buffer overflows in BSD-based FTP servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long…
CVE-2001-0247 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and NVD lists 5 affected products, including Mit Kerberos 5. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability description
Buffer overflows in BSD-based FTP servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long pattern string containing a {} sequence, as seen in (1) g_opendir, (2) g_lstat, (3) g_stat, and (4) the glob0 buffer as used in the glob functions glob2 and glob3.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
- Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
- Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
- Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
- Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
- Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.
Affected products
- Mit Kerberos 5: 1.1.1; 1.2; 1.2.1; 1.2.2
- Sgi Irix: 6.1; 6.5.1; 6.5.2m; 6.5.3; 6.5.3f; 6.5.3m; 6.5.4; 6.5.5; 6.5.6; 6.5.7; 6.5.8; 6.5.10
- Freebsd: 2.2; 2.2.2; 2.2.3; 2.2.4; 2.2.5; 2.2.6; 2.2.8; 3.0; 3.1; 3.2; 3.3; 3.4
- Netbsd: 1.2.1; 1.3; 1.3.1; 1.3.2; 1.3.3; 1.4; 1.4.1; 1.4.2; 1.4.3; 1.5
- Openbsd: 2.3; 2.4; 2.5; 2.6; 2.7; 2.8