CVE-2006-5815 (GCVE-0-2006-5815)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-08 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:04
VLAI
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers, probably authenticated, to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated by vd_proftpd.pm, a "ProFTPD remote exploit."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/23184 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23125 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/23179 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20061… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/22803 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2006-11-06 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2025-04-25T14:43:16Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2006-5815",
      "id": "CVE-2006-5815",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:13:58Z",
      "product_status:recommended": "9",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2006-5815",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2006-5815.json",
      "version": "5"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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