National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0831
Orirignal release date: 2003-11-17
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    ProFTPD 1.2.7 through 1.2.9rc2 does not properly translate newline characters when transferring files in ASCII mode, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow using certain files.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot other="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-2003-0831