CVE-2020-6162 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in Bftpd 5.3. Under certain circumstances an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an uninitialized value. The daemon crashes at startup in the hidegroups_init function in dirlist.c.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.html https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOG

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.1