Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 3, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2021-40491

Description

The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.

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Affected products

GNU/Inetutilsdescription
GNU/Inetutilsllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.2

Patches

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References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.htmlmitremailing-list
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgimitre
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/mitre
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2021-06/msg00002.htmlmitre

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