CVE-2007-5769

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Double free vulnerability in the getreply function in ftp.c in netkit ftp (netkit-ftp) 0.17 20040614 and later allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via some types of FTP protocol behavior. NOTE: the netkit-ftpd issue is covered by CVE-2007-6263.

Affected products

Netkit-Ftp Netkit Ftp: 0.17

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199206
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch?view=auto
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119704348003382&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26764
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199206
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch?view=auto
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119704348003382&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26764

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