Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6162
CVE-2020-6162
Description
An issue was discovered in Bftpd 5.3. Under certain circumstances, an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an uninitialized value. The daemon crashes at startup in the hidegroups_init function in dirlist.c.
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Affected products
3- Bftpd/Bftpddescription
<5.3+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <5.3
- cpe:2.3:a:bftpd_project:bftpd:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
2- bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOGnvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
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