CVE-2006-6719

NameCVE-2006-6719
DescriptionThe ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wget (PTS)buster1.20.1-1.1fixed
bullseye1.21-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.21.3-1fixed
trixie1.21.4-1fixed
sid1.24.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wgetsource(unstable)1.13-1unimportant

Notes

An FTP server crashing a download utility is a bug, but not a DoS security issue
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=bd7f4ef701ce5db64659db496d3f47aeedfadac2 (v1.13)

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