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Gentoo Linux: GLSA 202210-03 High Severity: Remote Code Exec

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
An exploitable memory corruption in linux-ftpd-ssl enables malicious actors to run arbitrary code with elevated permissions on Gentoo distributions.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges on the local system

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: linux-ftpd-ssl: Remote buffer overflow Date: November 13, 2005 Bugs: #111573 ID: 200511-11

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges on the local system.
Background ========= linux-ftpd-ssl is the netkit FTP server with encryption support.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/ftpd < 0.17-r3 >= 0.17-r3
========== A buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in the linux-ftpd-ssl package. A command that generates an excessively long respon...

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