A vulnerability has been identified in cURL/libcURL, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "tftp.c" script that does not properly handle a specially crafted "TFTP" URL that contains a valid hostname and an overly long path (more than 512 bytes), which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system via a malicious URL.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ulf Harnhammar
ChangeLog
2006-03-20 : Initial release
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