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CVE-2005-2850

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SlimFTPd 3.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain (1) USER and (2) PASS commands, possibly due to a buffer overflow or off-by-one error.

Affected products

• Whitsoft Development Slimftpd: 3.17

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014831
• http://www.critical.lt/?vulnerabilities/8
• http://www.critical.lt/research/slimftpd_dos2.c
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014831
• http://www.critical.lt/?vulnerabilities/8
• http://www.critical.lt/research/slimftpd_dos2.c

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