CVE-2006-6719 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-6719?

CVE-2006-6719 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Dec 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6719?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gnu Wget.

How do I fix CVE-2006-6719?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-6719 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-6719 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-5953 Memory corruption in GNU Wget Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4877 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2024-38428 Other in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-58469 GNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Underread via Metalink URL Parsing High 8.7
• CVE-2016-7098 Race condition in n/a High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6719, GHSA-xp2f-5gqq-p6j5.