CVE-2006-6652
N/A
Published: December 20, 2006 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsmacOSNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 20%
Description
Buffer overflow in the glob implementation (glob.c) in libc in NetBSD-current before 20050914, NetBSD 2.* and 3.* before 20061203, and Apple Mac OS X before 2007-004, as used by the FTP daemon and tnftpd, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname that results from path expansion.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (12)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_NETBSDPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-027.txt.ascVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051009.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017386Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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