Check Point Advisories

WU-FTPD File Globbing Denial Of Service - Ver2 (CVE-2005-0256)

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-0769
Date Published:	3 Feb 2014
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Wednesday 01 January, 2014
Source:	CVE-2005-0256
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Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in wu-ftpd. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability via a glob pattern with a large number of * (wildcard) characters as demonstrated using the dir command. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the affected system.