CVE-2001-0247: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 19.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in BSD-based FTP servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long pattern string containing a {} sequence, as seen in (1) g_opendir, (2) g_lstat, (3) g_stat, and (4) the glob0 buffer as used in the glob functions glob2 and glob3.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.2 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only; version 2.2.4 only; version 2.2.5 only; version 2.2.6 only; …
• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only
• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.2.1 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; version 1.4 only; …
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.6 only; version 2.7 only; version 2.8 only
• Sgi Irix: version 6.1 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2m only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.3f only; version 6.5.3m only; …

Published 2001-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.