Resource management error in Pure-FTPd - CVE-2004-0656

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Resource management error in Pure-FTPd - CVE-2004-0656

Published: February 27, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25652
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2004-0656
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of limits for number of concurrent connections in accept_client() function. A remote attacker can exceed the maximum number of connections and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Pure-FTPd
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2004-0656

Install updates from vendor's website.

Pure-FTPd - update to 1.0.19

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