National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-1999-0911
Orirignal release date: 1999-08-27
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    ProFTPD (ProFTPD Project)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0911