CVE-2000-0973

FTP Server Response Buffer Overflow

Project curl Security Advisory, October 13th 2000 - Permalink

VULNERABILITY

When storing an FTP server's error message on failure, there was no check for input length and thus a malicious FTP server could overflow curl's stack based buffer.

INFO

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2000-0973 to this issue.

CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Severity: Critical

AFFECTED VERSIONS

• Affected versions: curl 6.0 to and including curl 7.4
• Not affected versions: curl < 6.0 and curl >= 7.4.1
• Introduced-in: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ae1912cb0d494b48d514d

SOLUTION

• Fixed-in: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/751d503f54596d6d86f969683fe

TIMELINE

This was not reported using the regular means so we did not make a standard time line for this issue.

CREDITS

• Reported-by: zillion

According to the original report once hosted on https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1804/exploit/

Thanks a lot!