VULHUB ™

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability affects WvTftp. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly to do proper sanity checking on string value pairs in TFTP packets. An attacker may leverage this issue to corrupt process heap memory, facilitating code execution and a compromise of the affected computer. It is also reported that the affected TFTP server runs with superuser privileges by default.

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability affects WvTftp. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly to do proper sanity checking on string value pairs in TFTP packets. An attacker may leverage this issue to corrupt process heap memory, facilitating code execution and a compromise of the affected computer. It is also reported that the affected TFTP server runs with superuser privileges by default.