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CVE-2016-20046 (GCVE-0-2016-20046)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-03-28 11:58 – Updated: 2026-04-01 13:58
VLAI
Title
zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 Local Buffer Overflow
Summary
zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NAME parameter handling of FTP connections that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized NAME value exceeding the 80-byte buffer allocated in strcpy_chk to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
zFTP zFTP Client Affected: 20061220+dfsg3-4.1
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public
2016-08-05 00:00
Credits
Juan Sacco - http://www.exploitpack.com -
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CVE-2016-20046 (GCVE-0-2016-20046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-28 11:58 – Updated: 2026-04-01 13:58
VLAI
Title
zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 Local Buffer Overflow
Summary
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Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
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Vendor Product Version
zFTP zFTP Client Affected: 20061220+dfsg3-4.1
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public
2016-08-05 00:00
Credits
Juan Sacco - http://www.exploitpack.com -
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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