National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-5815
Orirignal release date: 2006-11-08
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, as demonstrated by vd_proftpd.pm, a "ProFTPD remote exploit."

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 2.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: avail

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-2006-5815