CVE-2006-6719 (GCVE-0-2006-6719)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-23 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2006-12-18 00:00
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