Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting pureftpd package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PUREFTPD-2371147
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-9274  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pureftpd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer. An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.

CVSS Base Scores

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