CVE-2006-6170

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the tls_x509_name_oneline function in the mod_tls module, as used in ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large data length argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5815.

Affected products

ProFTPD Project Proftpd: through 1.3.0a

References

http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-remember-2-years-old-overflow.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050935.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23141
http://secunia.com/advisories/23174
http://secunia.com/advisories/23179
http://secunia.com/advisories/23184
http://secunia.com/advisories/23207
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.502491
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1222
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:217-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452228/100/100/threaded

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