CVE-2007-5769

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5769
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-06 15:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDouble free vulnerability in the getreply function in ftp.c in netkit ftp (netkit-ftp) 0.17 20040614 and later allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via some types of FTP protocol behavior. NOTE: the netkit-ftpd issue is covered by CVE-2007-6263.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Netkit-ftp Netkit Ftp 0.17 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Bug 199206 - net-ftp/netkit-ftpd < 0.17-r7 fclose() on uninitialized streams (CVE-2007-{5769,6263}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Exploit, Patch
netkit-ftp getreply() Uninitialized Output Stream Memory Corruption Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvs.fedora.redhat.com Exploit
'[Full-disclosure] netkit-ftpd/ftp uninitialized vulnerability' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-12-07Mark J CoxRed Hat does not consider a user assisted client crash such as this to be a security flaw.

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