CVE-2008-4572

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 60.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

GuildFTPd 0.999.14, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the CWD and LIST commands, which triggers heap corruption related to an improper free call, and possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Guildftpd: 0.999.14

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32218
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4422
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31729
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2794
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45818
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6738
http://secunia.com/advisories/32218
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4422
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31729
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2794
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45818
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6738

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