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CVE-2009-0543 (GCVE-0-2009-0543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-02-12 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:40
VLAI
Summary
ProFTPD Server 1.3.1, with NLS support enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection mechanisms via invalid, encoded multibyte characters, which are not properly handled in (1) mod_sql_mysql and (2) mod_sql_postgres.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-27.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3173 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2009-02-11 00:00
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