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Format String Exploits in Wu-FTP Server: An In-Depth Analysis

Calendar Nov 23, 2004 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security issue format string exploit ftp server unix server wu-ftp analysis
This documentation tries to explain the idea and analyses the tricks and limitations of format string exploits. As a real world example, the University of Washington implementation of a ftp server for Unix - wu-ftp version 2.6.0 - as provided on Red