Off-by-one error in the fb_realpath() function, as derived from the realpath function in BSD, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated in wu-ftpd 2.5.0 through 2.6.2 via commands that cause pathnames of length MAXPATHLEN+1 to trigger a buffer overflow, including (1) STOR, (2) RETR, (3) APPE, (4) DELE, (5) MKD, (6) RMD, (7) STOU, or (8) RNTO.
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Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2003-011.txt.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0065.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7+/Updates/errata/IMNX-2003-7+-019-01 cve-icon cve-icon
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105967301604815&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001410028809&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106001702232325&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106002488209129&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/9423 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/9446 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/9447 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/9535 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1007380 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1001257.1-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-357 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/743092 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_032_wuftpd.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/6602 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-245.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-246.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424852/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425061/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8315 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-46.txt cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12785 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0466 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1970 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0466 cve-icon
History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.9019}

epss

{'score': 0.90825}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:10.161Z

Reserved: 2003-06-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2003-0466

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2003-0466

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2003-07-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2003-0466 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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