Re: Pro/wuFTPD DoS

From: Chris Wedgwood (chrisat_private)
Date: Sat Feb 20 1999 - 14:01:07 PST

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    On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 07:56:59PM +0500, CyberPsychotic wrote:
    
    > I think I will probably write it again, since I don't I have it saved
    > somewhere.  There's nothing fascinating actually. This seem to be a heap
    > buffer overflow, which smashes pointers to the dirnames (thus you could
    > probably get access to files outsite chrooted envinronment):
    
    Could someone please clue me in on how this might be so, assuming
    *ftpd correctly chroot's itself then relinquishes permissions?
    
    
    
    -cw
    



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