CVE-2016-20046

Summary

zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NAME parameter handling of FTP connections that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized NAME value exceeding the 80-byte buffer allocated in strcpy_chk to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
zFTPzFTP Client20061220+dfsg3-4.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References