CVE-2011-0418

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The glob implementation in Pure-FTPd before 1.0.32, and in libc in NetBSD 5.1, does not properly expand expressions containing curly brackets, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted FTP STAT command.

Affected products

Netbsd: 5.1
Pureftpd Pure-Ftpd: through 1.0.31; 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 0.95 (+82)

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.28
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&f=h
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/97
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8228
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:094
http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47671
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1273
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704283
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.28
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&f=h
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/97

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