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CVE-2005-0256 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wu-ftpd), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.
The wu_fnmatch function in wu_fnmatch.c in wu-ftpd 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion by recursion) via a glob pattern with a large number of * (wildcard) characters, as demonstrated using the dir command.