CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-0936

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflow in Frox transparent FTP proxy 0.6.6 and earlier, with the local caching method selected, allows remote FTP servers to run arbitrary code via a long response to an MDTM request.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could lead to remote code execution, posing a serious security threat to systems using this proxy.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Frox that is not vulnerable to this issue and to monitor FTP traffic for potential attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Frox transparent FTP proxy 0.6.6 and earlier, with the local caching method selected, allows remote FTP servers to run arbitrary code via a long response to an MDTM request.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS