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CVE-2006-5815

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 75.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers, probably authenticated, to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated by vd_proftpd.pm, a "ProFTPD remote exploit."

Affected products

• ProFTPD Project Proftpd: through 1.3.0

References

• http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2858
• http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22803
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22821
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23000
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23069
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23125
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23174
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23179
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23184
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23207
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017167

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