CVE-2006-2172: GENE6 g6 FTP Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Gene6 FTP Server 3.1.0 allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to (1) MKD or (2) XMKD, as demonstrated by the Infigo FTPStress Fuzzer.

Affected products

• GENE6 g6 FTP Server: version 3.1 only

Published 2006-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.