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CVE-2003-0466

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Off-by-one error in the fb_realpath() function, as derived from the realpath function in BSD, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated in wu-ftpd 2.5.0 through 2.6.2 via commands that cause pathnames of length MAXPATHLEN+1 to trigger a buffer overflow, including (1) STOR, (2) RETR, (3) APPE, (4) DELE, (5) MKD, (6) RMD, (7) STOU, or (8) RNTO.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published8/27/2003

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

apple:mac_os_xapple:mac_os_x_serverfreebsd:freebsdnetbsd:netbsdopenbsd:openbsdredhat:wu_ftpdsun:solariswuftpd:wu-ftpd

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-193

References

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2003-011.txt.asc(cve@mitre.org)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0065.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7+/Updates/errata/IMNX-2003-7+-019-01(cve@mitre.org)

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.txt(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105967301604815&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001410028809&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001702232325&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106002488209129&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9423(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9446(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9447(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9535(cve@mitre.org)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1007380(cve@mitre.org)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1001257.1-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-357(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/743092(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:080(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_032_wuftpd.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/6602(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-245.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-246.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424852/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425061/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8315(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-46.txt(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12785(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1970(cve@mitre.org)

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2003-011.txt.asc(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0065.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7+/Updates/errata/IMNX-2003-7+-019-01(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105967301604815&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001410028809&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001702232325&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106002488209129&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9423(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9446(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9447(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/9535(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1007380(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1001257.1-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-357(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/743092(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:080(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_032_wuftpd.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/6602(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-245.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-246.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424852/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425061/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8315(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-46.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12785(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1970(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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