CVE-2006-6719

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6719
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-23 11:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Wget 1.10 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.10.1 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.10.2 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.5.3 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.7 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.7.1 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.8 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.8.1 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.8.2 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.9 All All All
Application Gnu Wget 1.9.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-930 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:017 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
GNU Wget FTP_Syst Function Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
wget 1.10.2 - Unchecked Boundary Condition Denial of Service - Multiple dos Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-10-07Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221459 We do not consider a crash of a client application such as wget to be a security issue. This flaw was fixed in wget shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 before the initial release of the product. Version of wget shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 are affected by this bug.

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