Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0256

Title: Washington University Wu-Ftpd Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-0256

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

26.55%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0256: The wu_fnmatch function in wu_fnmatch.c in wu-ftpd 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion by recursion) via a glob pattern with a large number of * (wildcard) characters, as demonstrated using the dir command.

Impacted Vendors

wuftpd 1

washington_university 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.63/SCOSA-2005.63.txt http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00637342 http://secunia.com/advisories/14411 http://secunia.com/advisories/18210 http://secunia.com/advisories/19561 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101699-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57795-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=207&type=vulnerabilities http://www.osvdb.org/14203 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0588 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1271 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1265 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1333 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1762 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.63/SCOSA-2005.63.txt http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00637342 http://secunia.com/advisories/14411 http://secunia.com/advisories/18210 http://secunia.com/advisories/19561 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101699-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57795-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=207&type=vulnerabilities http://www.osvdb.org/14203 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0588 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1271 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1265 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1333 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1762

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0256 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/842

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.