Vulnerability CVE-1999-0997


Published: 1999-12-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
University of washington -> Wu-ftpd 
Redhat -> Linux 
Millenux gmbh -> Anonftp 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-377

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