National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-0053
Orirignal release date: 2001-02-12
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    One-byte buffer overflow in replydirname function in BSD-based ftpd allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

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

    OpenBSD (OpenBSD)
    ftpd-BSD (David Madore)
    NetBSD (NetBSD)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0053