CVE-2011-0418

NameCVE-2011-0418
DescriptionThe glob implementation in Pure-FTPd before 1.0.32, and in libc in NetBSD 5.1, does not properly expand expressions containing curly brackets, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted FTP STAT 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
pure-ftpd (PTS)bullseye1.0.49-4.1fixed
bookworm1.0.50-2.1fixed
sid, trixie1.0.50-2.2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pure-ftpdsource(unstable)1.0.32-1unimportant

Notes

The attack could not be reproduced on Linux. The upstream change from 1.0.32
only disables GLOB_BRACE, possibly to protect installations with a vulnerable libc

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