Intrusion PreventionProFTP.Welcome.Message.Overflow
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in
ProFTP.
The vulnerability is due to an improper boundary check condition in the application handling malformed welcome messages from the FTP server. As a result, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application.
Affected Products
ProFTP 2.09
Impact
System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Currently we are not aware of any vendor supplied patch for this issue.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 30811 |
| Created | Feb 03, 2012 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2009-3976 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 1.47% |
| Default Action | Unavailable |
| Active |