Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0854

Title: ls memory consumption DoS

DoS, Memory Consumption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2003-0854

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 17, 2003
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Available
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0854: ls in the fileutils or coreutils packages allows local users to consume a large amount of memory via a large -w value, which can be remotely exploited via applications that use ls, such as wu-ftpd.

Impacted Vendors

W
washington_university 1
G
gnu 1
W
wuftpd 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000768 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000771 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/012548.html http://secunia.com/advisories/10126 http://secunia.com/advisories/17069 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-213.pdf http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 http://www.guninski.com/binls.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:106 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-309.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-310.html http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6014 http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-60.txt https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/115 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000768 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000771 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/012548.html http://secunia.com/advisories/10126 http://secunia.com/advisories/17069 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-213.pdf http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 http://www.guninski.com/binls.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:106 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-309.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-310.html http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6014 http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-60.txt https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/115
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0854 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/115
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.