CVE-1999-0997 (GCVE-0-1999-0997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-04-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:55
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Summary
wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-377 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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