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CVE-2005-4816

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in mod_radius in ProFTPD before 1.3.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password.

Affected products

• ProFTPD Project Proftpd: 1.2, 1.2.0_rc1, 1.2.0_rc2, 1.2.0_rc3, 1.2.1, 1.2.2 (+31)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dailydave/2006-q1/0122.html
• http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2658
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1245
• http://www.osvdb.org/23063
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16535
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dailydave/2006-q1/0122.html
• http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2658
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1245
• http://www.osvdb.org/23063
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16535

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