CVE-2011-0418 Denial of service in n/a
Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in Pure-FTPd due to improper glob expression expansion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-0418?
CVE-2011-0418 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netbsd Netbsd, published on 24 May 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0418?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Netbsd Netbsd, Pureftpd Pure-Ftpd.
How do I fix CVE-2011-0418?
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-2011-0418 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0418 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Netbsd Netbsd
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-0418, GHSA-g8vx-5jmv-rgqx.