CVE-1999-0911

Summary

CVE-1999-0911 is a vulnerability affecting ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd file transfer protocol daemons. Hackers can exploit a buffer overflow issue in handling directory listing commands, specifically MKD and CWD, to create nested directories. This process allows attackers to execute arbitrary code and ultimately gain root access to the system.

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