University of Washington wu-ftpd PASV memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in University of Washington wu-ftpd (File Transfer Software) (version now known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component PASV Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

pasv core dump in wu-ftpd daemon when attacker uses a quote pasv command after specifying a username and password.

The weakness was presented 10/16/1996 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at osvdb.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-1999-0075. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10086 (WU-FTPD QUOTE PASV Forced Core Dump Information Disclosure), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FTP and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (201) and Tenable (10086).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 10086
Nessus Name: WU-FTPD QUOTE PASV Forced Core Dump Information Disclosure
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10/14/1996 🔍
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06/22/1999 +979 days 🔍
10/23/2002 +1219 days 🔍
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06/17/2014 +3721 days 🔍
05/05/2019 +1783 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: washington.edu

Advisory: osvdb.org⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0075 (🔍)
X-Force: 201
Vulnerability Center: 205 - wu-ftpd QUOTE PASV, Medium
OSVDB: 5742 - WU-FTPD QUOTE PASV Forced Core Dump Information Disclosure

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Created: 06/17/2014 17:33
Updated: 05/05/2019 15:30
Changes: 06/17/2014 17:33 (65), 05/05/2019 15:30 (2)
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