A vulnerability has been identified in NetBSD, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error in "glob" when handling malformed arguments, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system (e.g. by sending a malformed pathname to the ftp daemon).
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tomas Skare
ChangeLog
2006-12-15 : Initial release
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