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WU-FTPD Heap Corruption Vulnerability

This paper presents a vulnerability profile - specifically an oversight in design, whereby a remote user with any valid FTP login is able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the FTP daemon - usually root.

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10 Dec 2001
ByJennifer Allen
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