CVE-2006-6170
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 18.1%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the tls_x509_name_oneline function in the mod_tls module, as used in ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large data length argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5815.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 18.1% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6153)
- Published
- November 30, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6153 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- proftpd project / proftpd
References
- http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-remember-2-years-old-overflow.html(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050935.html(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23141(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23174
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23179
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23184
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23207
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.502491
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1222
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:217-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452228/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452872/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452993/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21326
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4745
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214820(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30554
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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