CVE-ID

CVE-2000-0574

• CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
FTP servers such as OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd and Opieftpd do not properly cleanse untrusted format strings that are used in the setproctitle function (sometimes called by set_proc_title), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20000719 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (20000719)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(3) Cole, Levy, Magdych
MODIFY(1) Frech
NOOP(2) LeBlanc, Wall
REVIEWING(1) Christey
Comments (Legacy)
 Christey> CD:SF-CODEBASE applies here.  There are many ftpd's that
   have this setproctitle() problem, but it might be traced
   back to the same codebase.  See if the HP problem is the
   same here as well, and if so, ADDREF HP:HPSBUX0007-117
   URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/advisory.html?id=2404
 Frech> XF:ftp-setproctitle-format-string(4908)
   BID:1438 does not exist.
 Christey> ADDREF HP:HPSBUX0007-117??
   http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2000-q4/0020.html
 Christey> ADDREF BID:650 ?

Proposed (Legacy)
20000719
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