National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6719
Original release date:12/23/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The 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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221459
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 21650
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 2947
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-930
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:017
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 2947
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:017