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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113622
Category:FTP
Title:Bftpd < 5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Summary:Bftpd is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
Bftpd is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The following vulnerabilities exist:

- CVE-2020-6162: Under certain circumstances, an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an
uninitialized value. The daemon crashes at startup in the hidegroups_init function in dirlist.c.

- CVE-2020-6835: There is a heap-based off-by-one error during file-transfer error-checking.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to crash the FTP
server or execute arbitrary code on the target machine.

Affected Software/OS:
Bftdp through version 5.3.

Solution:
Update to version 5.4.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-6162
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-6835
http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.html#302460
https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOG
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