CVE-2006-6652

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the glob implementation (glob.c) in libc in NetBSD-current before 20050914, NetBSD 2.* and 3.* before 20061203, and Apple Mac OS X before 2007-004, as used by the FTP daemon and tnftpd, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname that results from path expansion.

Affected products

macOS: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.1 (+35)
Netbsd: 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-027.txt.asc
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23178
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017386
http://www.osvdb.org/31781
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21377
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30670

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